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Statesmen, and Mighty Men. 


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IRISH NATIONAL 
SONGSTER, 


A CHOICE SELECTION 
Sentimental, Patriotic, and Comic Songs, 
NEW YORK : 


P. J. KENEDY, PUBLISHER, 


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Katered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, 
bY P. J. KENEDY, 


in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, 





CONTENTS. 


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Aileen Mavourneen...........-.-.-2ecececccesceceess as aces ous < Mist 
As a Beam o’er the face of the Waters may lOWacscacieccccccuss aye 
As slow our Ship .... .......cccceccccecceccscccs Smaecerens seceak ee 
At the Mid-hour of Night eeoeeeveees ere eeeee2e88008 e@e2e0e802028200828288 08 10 
Ambition erereeeresreeer sre eoeeeeeeeteseee eee e2e02820088 @©ee288280202080808020 08 10 
Avenging and Bright..............ssesseseeees dood So dees besen<enak 
MP MPILOLO 0 2 ata Fe os knows ccc ecncee: Se cecsles siclapehals ehie sais. sie SG, UaO 
A Place in thy Memory, Dearest.......... nme ca sla asie wea ches sansa ae 
A Sweet Irish saat ie e Darling. seataies Datuccsiss ss ae oeiviie testes <aEES 
Angel’s Whisper............c.e-ceees ata dos sels cienis Re cac ues cena 
A Beggar’s edding RT EM: siiseas Bis cine ntenG tease Garees a's eee oes 15 
Am I not Fondl Bie Own PP Uclete hlccieee staid eee nace soc sere omeee 
Beautiful Isle o the.See re Bei ie cane cs bike ne ois a euscie-s iacnsleswceethee 
Ben Bolt.. PRTG Nee cesc Siccke esses ess Vets wien K acin ate Le 
Before the Battle............s00. ede eee as eee eep easine weeas eeete ee 
UI AETEEE KUUSIOCY. cece oc oon s cece a cccetcs sc ctcesccenessecese -. 156 
Believe me, if all those endearing Young Charms........ Seis ins 20 
By that Lake whose gloomy Shore .............+-ese0. <ssiiecsa con a0 
POMMIUSE ETT c oc ccc e secs tes cees Eeteecacees ss whose de seeteecae 
By the Hope mithin’ne Springing Pes Cees Saeiek’s Osis oid ceeuieeeeg cht, ae 
Cand or see eee err eee eeereen eerveseed SOHOKRSSHSOHSHSHSHESEE COHFEHSHSSSOXSF EES 18 
Polieen Bawn........ Meee care 6 Ae Media casio asses cere cosas eb igine 
Cottage DUP SIG DOR so oc oc scc ccs sc cceesscceressesseses Se istshnians . 133 
Come o’er the Sea. ........ccccccccccccecs saps caperenculbincoe ste oeite 24 
Se i el. o's Socey ce ace eseoes sigh a Neca cae cheese 
Come, Rest in this Bosom Sisttinete serous eee esto 9.4. Coupenicasal Bence viet ae 
SeeniG OSCR 10 ETN, ......- .- 000.000 E cine iorsrac tele alsiaie as, oe.s a ecwaiieeet 25 
Come, send round the Wine... ........eeseeeeecccceee: péatcecesseoae 
Could’st thou look as dear........... Sues taseha vest ines wiete crete? 26 
Come, Birdie, Come............. ete kccctuceusnsadesens eee Seles eke 
Colleen Dhas Cruthin Amoe......... eile sieebins Gate iimae te once bewey ae 
Dear Harp of my OOUNLEY 2 sccm sus ocetcsesces'e hale sibho Ue exis cee celia 
NI te FLOR con oo sig. k's 09 o0,0,0.0 cease ns esnneebe avec ahusche eaccemi ee 
Mermot Asthore.......0...ecsccsccesceecs wisi wile se easier eeeste fae aLOU 
Dean Swift’s Certificate of Marriage.........e+.seee0 wisidala sacubiere o WLOk 
MIDIS. 2a wc'as cs wees. TT Roch ueccacaameel ata on aehten kk 
Dreaming of Thee........ peices epiaee es o> 0.4 pase SeisnaineXs pccceeeemaee 
in, Mavourneen...... Pine ore trss cae sels wcktetesiecales «eee os ote ane 

9 9 Asetatde oe ecer cess esereee eee eeoeersesneese @eeoeoeoeveeoeoe eeeoeeoease 33 
METI TIO to ecg dos os oe oj0.c0s so nevcbeviesrvcceecececvesnce ccccese 170 
Erin! the tear and the smile in thine eyes......cecrceccccccccece 39 
Eveleen’s Bower...........2+. Baiece obi acs Waisidl saia's wisi osies cleans snere 
Evin is my home....... Weve uitvasdcuena stlea's ess o:0,50.0 Soe beads ee ae 
Ever of T ee ee ee ee ee ee | @eeoeeoeeeeee0ce @Peeeereeeseeeeeee84 eeree 08 35 
Botapring a Witness Se vosness se weve epecehas saves seca'e se cncaestra mee 
RL ts fos vis v oio.cls wo sides ob e eeeespee oeccesetecas sa SOG 
Farewell but whenever you welcome the hour.............. coccce 37 
Fill the Bumper Fair... ........22.eeceeeeeceees enesesenes cocccce 88 
Fly not yet... .......-.--..-+6 eccccccccccccecces soccccccccccsccs 40 
From Life without Freedom.....ccccccccccccccccccccccccccccrcce Al 
Go where Glory waits Thee..... gepsaveusacaceveseheeceteceeuupeman 
Give me a Cot in the Valley I Love... .orscccscccccccoecssccccssore @ 


iv CONTENTS. 
Grace Darling ....rcccsccecccsenccccccssesses eesee © 0 ' ques Oe 00888 © 43 
Grace after Dinner. cssccscss @eoeoeveeveseeeooe @eoeece CE CRO ie OR A dt i, } 64 
Home, Sweet Home...... pelaietaeis cate tow ss See e eae see Seca s ccueod 
How t Choose a Wife...........-.eseeces pele elclette ee Sis. wecite tae 
Has Sorrow thy Young Days Shaded?..... Wee eee cet iccescs tes teluee 
How dear to me the our | esscereeoeeseeee eee @eeeseeeene eeeosceveoeeoe 45 
How oft has the Banshee cried...... Sent ahoc es neu swceut o 6 Siaocs ae 
Here’s the Bower..........-+e. Seabed ea cneer ees ett aces ee se eee 47 
Highland Mary. ..........scccessccecssscveces beet cctecatescee tee 
Her Bright Smile Haunts me Still.............--000. Sohieseaweaceaee 
I’m Sitting on the Stile, Mary...... Gu goneeesot neers Coase ee ees eOe 
Tam Lonely to-night.........ccccccccccescceee Sectors te do fees kta 
I will be True to Thee... ......ccccccccccccccccsccececccscccececs 160 
I can not sing the old songs.......ccrecsccscccccccccccccccccs oe =49 
Tu hang m Harp on & Willow-tree eoaeeeeoeeee @@ee@eceoveeseeeooeoeese e 50 
I'd Mourn the Hopes...........-00- tebe breeae Bes vce Ceeeey see 51 
Dl Omens: sii es fase nee sewage s Petewiceehe te ie eag wasigeneoene 52 
I saw from the Beach............esscese caavese he Sones Sees Ded we 
I saw thy form in Youthful Prime......... Evaswke ste cs nan eeewas - &4 
It is not the tear at this moment shed.......... Mereacth cee ss wee sO 
I’ve a secret to tell Thee,......cccecescccsccccces Piece es caemene 56 
Irish Mary sow wmereco ee eseereraneeeeeeoeeae & ee@eseeeceeeecenoseeoe eee eeeee ‘ee 53 
I’m dreaming of Thee, Norah......ccecccceesccccccccccccceeccee: 58 
Joys that pass AWAY........eccsccccccscrcccncccccees Uicia ee ueere 56 
PUBDIGS 6) Soke il bce vccadcekeshswsbecessetowwts ss emtm ess ume cre . 154 
Judge Boat.......... bbed oeceauee guieevecs see hee chem Cah apess ster cee 
Katty AVOUrNEED.......ccccccecccecccecs nines bs ela hare e acer Gries wists - 60 
Kitty Dyrellcc cise ds occecdesada cevuestebis tees sine aes emmee se ennee 
Kathleen Mavourneen...........eceees Saas cubic creates cow tern ae - 62 
Kate O'Brien: : . 2.25. .355sscncs ex eneears cbse e a0 s caeleeees Genesee 7 OS 
Kate O’Shane saeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeeeseoeee 2220 08 eeeecenevese2e8e 02888 0@ 68 
Batic O'Ry ate. . iccces anes tistae ce nance male oe piers Sees dee ober «Por eee ne 64 
Killarney 02.2. 4% oe 2's oo sine we etoile ialetlotets Sade e esi te bags ae - 156 
Lament of the Irish Emigrant............. seee ecient se ceme coces, 65 
Lesbia hath a Beaming Hye..........seee. welscadetyebeeswenne cove 66 
Let Erin remember the Days of old.......scceseececrecccees <eece Oa 
Love and the Novice .........cccecccccnccs sec ccesccecccrecsccce 68 
Love Thee, Dearest Love Thee.........eeeees sige ces eeodesteccteue 
Light sounds the Harp.........eeeseeee Sale'bieea"eWiablecie cise te + cetenue 
Love’s light Summer Cloud........++. oobees ch dt eeens sets ee ere 70 
Love, my Mary, dwells with Thee. ....ccccseccccsccceccrceeeces <a ee 
Love’s Young Dream.........-...+scescccccccesccccsccccesccccee Ad 
Little Sweetheart, Come and Kiss me.......cecsccesecceecoceces 160 
Let the Dead and the Beautiful rest..... EEE ERS Sides ds cercces stun 
Listen to the Mocking-bird...... éve sce cede seewd seesccmmurete neste oe 
coh eseeeer te eeoev eee SHCCHOSHSSSSSHSEHRSHCEOSASSSSSHESZEE @eeeeeeore 58 
My eart’s in Old Treland... eeeeoeve @eeeooe eeceeeeaeeeeeeesorsre oe eee O86 73 
Molly Bawn eoeeeeoeoeveeeev eevee eo 8 @eeeeeaesne @eeeeeeee e@eeceeceeeeeeoeoes ee eevee c@ 73 
Molly, Asthore...........se00s cceeccescuans cc ccecceresescesce oo. 8 
Ma Ailleen, Asthore eeceeeoe eeeeeoe @eeceeoeveeae eee @eoeeeveeeeeeseeo ee &@ 45 
y Emmet’s no More.........cceccccccce PO es i ee aecsicss 40 
eet me, Miss Molly Malone............ vee wees emcee sabece bees t oe 
My Poor Heart is sad with its Dreaming........... wwecene coscees ADS 
Mollie Darling oeeewreeoereenev eevee ee eneee et & FESHOCO TSS SVC CTS ORAS SS ty 88 
Mollie Darling, Comic Version.......cccccepecccccccescacccccceem Bh 


Hy Breese ra ev iscnenercsssesevectsccdecelcteceeeletivon 116 


aM PNP s asd os 0ss os es ds os cece nse chicane vate se 107 
Norah PEGA Se 55 paces s o'o0s Suaeetsmeseececectsceeceere cet Lie 
Nay, tell me not............ Seleieeie sn sels s sisceesenete cocscccccess 78 
No, not more Welcome........ Cece cree sccseesccccsccseccesesess 79 
Norah, the Pride OGM KURI oo ecicc cco cace ae @ereoe @eeee e802 8002008 ee 80 
Norah McShane........... Cece rrccccccccccccsccsccccccccccccccce SF 
Nora O’Neal........ eseseces Cee eeececccccs seccesccsccsecescccces 83 
Noreen....:....... Co ercc crc c ccc cccceveccccencccssseccccccccccscs Sh 
Ome banquet Nob... 22.02... ccssccecseees siosensevecestccucecopees Ob 
Oh! Blame not the Bard..... Saiailcves eciege ease este ose ss ce cee eoeee 85 
Oh! Breathe not hig Namol.......ccccscccccccccsccccccccccces., 88 
SeOOMpt MO NOt r... iP... cccecseecsece Seaees sacs Sophie cooe 8 
Oh, Had we some Bright little Isle of our own..... Ssoceecesecoce Mt 
Oh! Think not my Spirits are always as Light...........s0000002, 88 
One Bumper at Parting..... Sisfarnis olere sinter sieves terete ecccccrcccccscces 89 
Oh, Remember the Time........... ecetietitess weetics s cca eter ee e. 90 
Oh, Soon Return!................ Ribleldlilesie se cou ot een commen a coos 90 
Oh! Where’s the Slave so Lowly..........ccceccecceceesee cnn... $1 
Oh, Yes—So well, so Tenderly........ sees? Seeiaeras Seles siete s en « 92 
Semen WiheR- te BOOM: 6.52 veiccisscscsevecsececucccun soeee sac oe 
Och! Norah Dear............ isto eels aiel ol aie sth ale eres se ciete te setessec sta 0G 
Oft in the Stilly Night...........008 cece isis waahelere cro cuclale mater ae ote - 94 
MRR PRE OC oe cio. v alane odececevesccial eee. leee ooo 123 
Pastheen Fion............. .. Savio dtecslerel Sosculae Cy Sr et te cate on . 94 
Pavey Maid Milking her Cow... .....50..0.cccesvsodeccceccnceces 95 
ing the Bell Softly, there’s Crape on the Door............ seo 168 
Rich and Rare were the Gems ghe wore.........-..060.........., 97 
Remember the Glories of Brian the Brave..........0..seec00 se - 97 
Be OL rics els Noni oe ebclose sted aveviccce cease 98 
he is far from the Land...... Wisiwion'e sitive» vice vices eines see ene eeee 100 
Bt. Senanus and the Lady.......... ccc cccec ccc cence Stealecs se acen hUO 
Btrike the gay BARE Dela ids cae Sus wore wads ce Somer ee ee caee coale 
Silent, O Moyle! be the Roar of thy Water,............cceccecee, 101 
Remremn IGEN NGI ie oo 3) aside nena a Bho be he terete Le mage seciee Un 
Swift among the Lawyers............ Rls Jose tre eae: we nite te are . 64 
Shamus O’Brien........... dese cae see Sols Cha sistem es eoee- 106 
wong Of Innisfail.............. Cs bgueis ¢ ceecsomesiletasetisanee Gets -. 168 
Savourneen Deelish.............2% eid sevcemeeesaccsten nets eoeee 105 
Bea RO UATIOYISCEMON: < 5o ws cerns sce KPa belo siema aeises a anti 
Sublime was the warning which Liberty Spoke...............00.. 104 
‘Tis Evening brings my Heart to thee........cccccccccccccces -.. 169 
Sie ous littlo Faded: Flower. 0.2.00... -.c2 sseechsces teellek, -. 168 
"Tis hard to give the Hand where the Heart can never be........ 164 
ane Harmer and the Counsellor............ecccececcccceccoeccs -- 36 
The Widow in the Cottage by the Sea-side...........ccssecceeeee 164 
URAL SRL Gs Ses OS a gic lace cee wsorelia's vedian cee swe tec eaten 54 
MMIOVOR.. 2 ec cees aeeeaawe a sluis 6 Slaislv da de dseldalel see eenaetieess oar ke 
The May-dew..-...... Diclecerscisiwraistee efoernee vee ee cone Secsesccese 1 Om 
The Bells of Shandon...... eicis ques ccestea es eveesues aaleeres asinere poet Lua 
Bete Ord Man at tho Altar... ....ccsescwsccccereolecclicecccsce: 108 
Take Back the Virgin Page.............. pitieslode tes Soeecdescesonee Aue 
me Fortane-teller.....2..ccccceseuceeeee Ceccccccccccccccccccccs 100 


The Harp that once through Tara’s Halls.........sccccccecccess. 114 
The Irish Peasant to his Mistress......... Siveveacccescteceecceral Lin 


vi CONTENTS. 
The Dear trish Boy.... eeeeeene @eseseeeeeeeees e@eeeoeeneeoeeeaneeeeeeees 113 
ERO LORACY ies acs: is ew sc ceee che en eee seeceacsteue 
The Meeting of the Waters...... qeuesnaae vids File dideine otite overs pte 
The Mountain Sprite...... decuvedees dada Snada sate o ate e'dn Soest ee 
The Minstre] Boy......... <Hicéea sts neuc evans Receeee oer eT et 115 
mie Song-Of Wari. .iss scat nee sien wis eitte ol wieoM bitgtere en escee SLIG 
(he. Prinee’s Day. 6... Joc. ae gen eid aia 5's kale acca el a> Mdelas ¢ caece ALG 
The Valley lay smiling before me...............0-00- nae a be ask 118 
The Time I’ve lost in Wooing...............e00- ocerececccccoces 120 
The Young May Moon......... ecko skeet s Cis ccna aes me weete ieee 
Pn. Young Rose... -. ss. esescduwenest coeeee eon: aelerceweee oes 121 
MES ZOUG ang LOrevpr, «oc sacks deans eaten ee eee heirs 125 
This Life is all Chequered with Pleasures and Woes............ «o 121 
Wis Sweet to Think: .....+25 tee eee sve ceeds eemuae 
Though the last glimpse of Erin with Sorrow I see.............. - 122 
The Origin of the Harn, ;>sp9ee seeeed woe eee atone seneete 124 
Tis the ani Rose of Summers sci tesw «toes te Oe Nee ee 126 
To Ladies’ Eyes................ Csebe capes Seas stanwacr grt etateeer 127 
The: Exile of Krin “oy, ces. cve reds aged ete ee ee 128 
The Girl Ive left hehind me.. .5-.2.. 2 eee eee eee 129 
The Dear Little Shamrock::.. dacdec ¢-oss se ee ee ee e+» 180 
she White Oockade. ii... svswlesatesscnesee eee ee ee 131 
The Blarney: .- i sscess ss cew ne adegses yamemeen eee ae mneenae 132 
The Maids of Merry Treland.:..5:+...00e aeeee ak. eee 133 
The Heart bowed down by Weight of Woe..............ce0. cece. 134 
Ehe Vesper Hymn. .5+ ii onsccsrkcwecs eee: eee ee 185 
The Irish Girl. o yah ace Geveonie tems MEU s sleu Selae te Sabie oo eis eee 8S 
The Maid of Erin... ..<.<0+<cew ged a ee Gese ess con 
The Blackbird........... éoeeveres Jos Keeebccthahs ep releeneee $5 2175 
Shoe Conlin. .. 5.05 fasqsveesas ees eee 176 
The Green Isle.s......4...eveeecessverecenhon mate tL ee 177 
e Four-leaved Shamrock: ....51....2200./eegene eee wdeees Lt@ 
Whip-poor-will’s Song. ..;..:...s5.sccceecceenes fe eee . 154 
When the Swallows Homeward fly..........cccccecececcecccces. Pp Gy! 
When You and I were Young, Maggie............ccecceececeece., 159 
What are the Wild Waves Saying?..........c0.ccseccecsecceeees, 162 
When he who Adores Thee -2 2.2.5.5 ssfhae ek ee 137 
We may roam through this World...........cccccceccecccccucce. 138 
When first-I met Thee ....../s.5 1.2. 05es oe ee 139 
What the Bee is to the Floweret..........ececccccsocscceceesss., 140 
When midat the gay I meét,cvy...oectedee ene ene ae 141 
When Twilight Dews, :...<...sckess cose eh eeeaen ene 141 
Winking at me..o.. osscsi avis vans «oe eee eee 142 
While gazing on the Moon’s Light..............cccsccccccccscce - 148 
While History's Muse. ..,:...0 004 cos ob dee bene aaeen nee 144 
William Reilly’s Courtship. oJ. Jaccss see eee count ae ween o 144 
Willy Reilly... . 1... <i. cs'see soo aseoue sls teen ne - 146 
Weep on; weep 0n,..0%<escunsess encore outomene bles etetele wis oiwle eels 149 
What will you do, Love?...........s06 © bc ve wey 66 seule crislesten's se. 150 
When thro’ Life unblest we Rove............+0. eae tte ely ele Saas 153 
With all my Soul then let us Part........... oes eles He ea we cokes Chee 174 
You Remember, Ellen.........ccecccesececes Sovccevieve Soearvevene LOO 
You'll Remember me.............00. SpstaRneene seeWececdwouseee Ok 
You would not Leave your Norah?................. ebevesenae ice - 164 


ERIN-GO-BRAGH 


SONGS TER. 





AILEEN, MAVOURNEEN. 


Hz tells me he loves me, and can I believe 
The heart he has won he can wish to deceive, 
Forever and always his sweet words to me, 
Are Aileen, mavourneen, acushlamachree. 


Last night when we parted, his gentle good-by, 

A thousand times said, and each time with a sigh, 
And still the same sweet words he whispered to me, 
My Aileen, mavourneen, acushlamachree. 


The friend of my childhood, the friend of my youth, 
Whose heart is all pure, and whose words are all truth, 
O, still the same sweet words he whispered to me, 

My Aileen, mavourneen, acushlamachree. 


O, when will the day come, the dear happy day, 
That a maiden may hear all a lover can say, 
And speak out the words he now whispers to me, 
Mv Aileen, mavourneen, acushlamachree 


G ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTES 


AFTER THE BATTLE. 


NicHT closed around the conqueror’s way, 
And lightnings showed the distant hill, 
Where those who lost that dreadful day 
Stuod, few and faint, but fearless still ! 
The soldier’s hope, the patriot’s zeal, 
Forever dimmed, forever crossed— 
Oh, who shall say what heroes feel, 
When all but life and honor’s lost? 


The last sad hour of freedom’s dream 
And valor’s task moved slowly by, 
While mute they watched, till morning’s beam 
Should rise and give them light to die. 
There’s yet a world where souls are free, 
Where tyrants taint not nature’s bliss; 
If death that world’s bright opening be, 
Oh, who would live a slave in this? 





AS A BEAM O'ER THE FACE OF THE WATERS 
MAY GLOW. 


As a beam o’er the face of the waters may glow, 
While the tide runs in darkness and coldness below, 
So the cheek may be tinged with a warm, sunny smile, 
Though the cold heart to ruin runs darkly the while. 


One fatal remembrance, one sorrow that throws 
Its bleak shade alike o’er our joys and our woes, 
To which life nothing darker or brighter can bring, 
For which joy has no balm and affliction no sting: 


Oh, this thought in the midst of enjoyment will stay, 
Like a dead, leafless branch in the suinmer’s bright ray 
The beams of the warm sun play round it in vain ; 

Tt may smile in his light, but it blooms not again. 


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RBC 


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ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 


AS SLOW OUR SHIP. 


As slow our ship her foamy track 
Against the wind was cleaving, 

Her trembling pennant still looked back 
To that dear isle ’twas leaving. 

So loath we part from all we love, 
From all the links that bind us; 

So turn our hearts, as on we rove, 
To those we’ve left behind us. 


When, round the bowl, of vanished years 
We talk, with joyous seeming— 

With smiles that might as well be tears, 
So faint, so sad their beaming; : 

While memory brings us back again 
Each early tie that twined us, 

Oh, sweet’s the cup that circles then 
To those we've left behind us! 


And when, in other climes, we meet 
Some isle or vale enchanting— 

Where all looks flowery, wild, and sweet, 
And naught but love is wanting; 

We think how great had been our bliss, 
If heaven had but assigned us 

To live and die in scenes like this, 
With some we’ve left behind us! 


As travellers oft look back at eve, 
When eastward darkly going, 
To gaze upon that light they lsave, 
. Still faint behind them glowing— 


~ $0, when the close of pleasure’s day 


To gloom hath near consigned us, 
We turn to catch one fading ray 
Of joy that’s left behind us 
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10 ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 


AT THE MID HOUR OF NIGHT. 


AT the mid hour of night, when stars are weeping, I fly 
To the lone vale we loved, when life shone warn: in thine 
eye; 


And I think oft, if spirits can steal from the regions of 
alr, 

To revisit past scenes of delight, thou wilt come to me 
there, 


And tell me our love is remembered, even in the sky! 


Then I sing the wild song ’twas once such pleasure to 

When ba nee commingling, breathed like one on the 
Kea ‘acho far off through the vale my sad orison 
I net my love! ’tis thy voice, from the kingdom of 

Faintls casvaibs still the notes that once were so dear. 





AMBITION. 
BACON. 

CrnEas was an excellent orator and statesman, and 
principal friend and counsellor to Pyrrbus; and falling in 
inward talk with him and discerning the King’s endless 
aiabition, Pyrrhus opened himself unto him, that he 
intended first a war upon Italy, and hoped to achieve it. 
Cineas asked him, “Sir, what will you do then?” “TLen,” 
guid he, “we will attempt Sicily.” Cineas said, “ Well, sir, 
what then?” Said Pyrrhus, “If the gods favor us, we may 
conquer Africa and Carthage. ” “What then, sir?” said 
Cineas. “ Nay then,” saith Pyrrins, “we may take our rest, 
sacrifice and feast every day, and make merry with our 
friends.” “ Alas, sir,” said Cineas, “ may we not du so now 
without aj! thie adn ” 


ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. lt 
AVENGING AND BRIGHT. 


[The words of this song were suggested by the very ancient story 
ealled ‘Deirdri, or the Lamentable Fate of the Sons of Usnach,” 
which bas been translated literally from the Gaelic by Mr. 
O’Flanagan (see Vol. I. of Transactions of the Gaelic Society of 
Dublin), and upon which it appears that the ‘“ Darthula” of 
Macpherson is founded. The treachery of Conor, King of Ulster, 
in putting to death the three sons of Usnach, was the cause of a 
desolating war ayainst Ulster, which terminated in the destruction of 
Eman. “ This story,” says Mr. O'Flanayan, ‘ har, been from time 
immemorial held in high repute as one of the three tragic stories of 
the Irish. These are ‘The Death of the Childven of Tournan,’ 
‘The Death of the Children of Lear,’ and this, ‘The Death of the 
Children of Usnach,” which is a Milesian story.” It will be recollected 
that in the second number of these melodies, there is a ballad upoa 
the story of the children of Lear or Lir, Silent O’Moyle, ete. } 


AVENGING and bright fall the swift sword of Erin 
On him who the brave sons of Usna betrayed !— 
For every fond eye he hath wakened a tear in, 
A drop from his heart-wounds shall weep o’er her blade! 


By the red clond that bung over Conor’s dark dweiling, 
When Ulad’s three champions lay sleeping in gne— 

By the billows of war, which so often, high swolliag, 
Have waited these herves to victory’s shore— 


We swear tc revenge them !—no joy shall be tasted, 
The harp shall be silent, the maiden unwed, 

Our halls shall be mute, and our fields shall ‘16 wasted, 
Till vengeance is wreaked on the murdere/'s head ! 


Yes, monarch! though sweet are our home .ecollections, 
Th ugh sweet are the tears that from tenderness fall; 
Though sweet are our friendships, our hopes, our affectung 

Revenge on a tyrant is sweetest of all! 


ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 


ARRANMORE. 
THOMAS MOORE. 


Ox! Arranmore, loved Arranmore, 
How oft I dream of thee; 

And of those days when by thy shore 
I wandered young and free. 

Full many a path I’ve tried since thes 
Through pleasure’s flow’ry maze, 

But ne’er could find the bliss again 
I felt in those sweet days. 


How blithe upon thy breezy cliff 
At sunny morn I’ve stood, 

With heart as bounding as the skiffs 
That danced along thy flood ; 

Or when the western wave grew brigts 
With daylight’s parting wing, — 

Have sought that Eden in its light, 
Which dreaming poets sing. 


That Eden where th’ immortal brave 
Dwell in a land serene, 

Whose vowers beyond the shining wave 
At sunset oft are seen ; 

Ah, dream too full of saddening truth! 
Those mansions o’er the main 

Are like the hopes I built in youth, 
As sunny and as vain. 





A PLACE IN THY MEMORY, DEAREST 


A PLACE in thy memory, dearest, 
Is all that I claim, 

To pause and look back when thou hearest 
The sound of my name. 


ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 13 


Another may woo thee, nearer, 
Another may win and wear; 

I care not though he be dearer, 
If I am remembered there. 


Remember me—not as a lover 
Whose hope was cross’d— 
Whose bosom can never recover 
The light it hath lost. 
As the young bride remembers the mother 
She loves, though she never may see, 
As a sister remembers a brother, 
Oh, dearest ! remember me. 


Could I be thy true lover, dearest, 
Could’st thou smile on me; 

I would be the fondest and nearest 
That ever loved thee ! 

But a cloud on my pathway is glooming, 
That never must burst upon thine; 

And Heaven, that made thee all blooming, 
Ne’er made thee to wither on mine. 


Remember me, then—Oh, remember 
My calm, light-love; 

[hough bleak as the blasts of November 
My love may prove. 

That life will,though lonely, be sweet, 
If its brightest enjoyment should be 

A smile and kind look when we meet, 
And a place in thy memory, 





A SWEET IRISH GIRL IS THE DARLING, 


I¥ they talk about ladies, I’l] tell them the plan 

Of myself—to be sure I’m a nate Irishman ; 

There is neither sultana nor foreign ma’mselle 

That has charms to please me, or can coax me so well 


14 ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER, 


As the sweet Irish girl, so charming to see: 
Och! a tight Irish girl is the darling for me. 
And sing filliloo, fire away, frisky she’ll be, 
Och! a sweet Irish girl is the darling for me: 

For she’s pretty, 

She’s witty, 

She’s hoaxing, 

And coaxing, 

She’s smiling, 

Beguiling to see, to see: 

She rattles, 

She prattles, 

Sle dances 

And prances, 
Och! a sweet Irish girl is the darling for me 


Now, seme girls they are little, and some they are tall, 
Och, others are big, sure, and others are small ; 
And seme that are teasing, are bandy, I tell; 
Still uone can please me, or can coax me so well 
As the dear Irish girl, so charming to see; 
Och! a sweet Irish girl is the darling for me: 
For she’s pretty, ete, 


ANGELS’ WHISPER. 


A BABY was sleeping, 
Its mother was weeping, 
Fo. ber ansband was far on the wide, raging sea, 
And tle tempest was swelling 
"Round the fisherman’s dwelling, 
And che cried, “ Dermont, darling, oh! come back to me ** 


Her beads while she number’d, 
The baby still slumber’d, 
And smiled in her face as she bended her knee: 


ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 18 


“Oh! bless’d be that warning, 
eo _ My child, thy sleep adorning, 
For I know that the angels are whispering to thee. 


““ And while they are keeping 
Bright watch o’er thy sleeping, 
Oh! pray to them softly, my baby, with me— 
And say thou wouldst rather 
They’d watch o’er thy father, 
For I know that the angels are whispering with thee.” 


The dawn of the morning 
~ Saw Dermont returning, - 
And the wife wept with joy ber babe’s father to see, 
And closely caressing 
Her child, with a blessing, 
Baid, “I knew that the angels were whispering with thee.” 


A BEGGARS’ WEDDING. 


As Swift was fond of scenes in low life, be missed no 
Opportunity of being present at them when they fell in his 
way. Once when he was in the country, he received in- 
telligence that there was to be a beggars’ wedding in the 
neighborhood. LHe was resolved not to miss the opportu: 
nity of seeing so curious a ceremony ; and that he might en- 
joy the whole completely, proposed to Dr. Sheridan that he 
should go thither, disguised as a blind fiddler, with a baa- 
dage over hiseyes, and he would attend him as his man to lead 
him. TLus accoutred they reached the scene of action, where 
the blind fiddler was received with joyful shouts. They bad 
plenty of meat and drink, and plied the fiddler and hig man 
with more than was agreeable to them. Never was @ 


16 ERIN-GO-BRA SH SONGSTER. 


more joyful wedding seen. They sung, they danced, tuld 
their stories, cracked jokes, and so on, in a vein of humor 
more entertaining to the two guests than they probably 
could have found in any other meeting on a like occasion. 
When they were about to depart they pulled out their 
Jeather pouches, and rewarded the fiddler very handsomely. 
‘The next day the Dean and the Doctor walked out in 
their usual dress, and found their companions of the pre- 
ceding evening scattered about in different parts of the 
road and the neighboring village, all begging their 
charities in doleful strains, and telling dismal stories of their 
distress. Among these they found some upon crutches, who 
had danced very nimbly at the wedding, otkers stone-blind, 
who were perfectly clear-sighted at the feast. ‘The Doctor 
distributed among them the money which he had received 
as his pay; but the Dean, who mortally hated these sturdy 
vagrants, rated them sound|y, told them in what manner he had 
been present at the wedding, and was let into their roguery ; 
and assured them, if they did not immediately apply to 
honest labor, he would have them taken up and sent to 
ear Whereupon the lame once more recovered their 
egs, the blind their eyes, so as to make a very precipitate 
retreat. 





AM I NOT FONDLY THINE OWN? 


THOU, thou reign’st in this bosom, 
There, there, hast thou thy throne; 
Thou, thou knowest that I love thee— 
Am I not fondly thine own? 
Yes, yes, yes, yes, am I not fondly thine own ? 


Then, then, e’en as I love thee, 
Say, say, wilt thou love me? 
Thoughts, thoughts, tender and true, love, 
Say, wilt thou cherish for me? 
Yes, yes, yes, ves, say, wilt thou cherish for me § 


ERDy-GO-BRAGH SUNUSTER. 1? 


Speak, speak, love, I implore thee, 
Say, say, hope shall be thine, 
Thou, thou know’st that I love thee, 
Say but that thou wilt be mine! 
Yes, yes, yes, yes, say but thou wilt be mix } 





BEAUTIFUL ISLE OF THE SEA! 
; GEORGE COOPER. 


BEAUTIFUL Isle of the Sea 
Smile on the brow of the waters! 
Dear are your mem’ries to me, 
Sweet as the songs of your daughters. 
Over your mountains and vales, 
Down by each murmuring river, 
Cheer’d by the flow’r-loving gales, 
Oh! could I wander for ever! 
Land of the True and the Old, 
Home ever dear unto me— 
Fountain of pleasure untold, 
Beautiful Isle of the Sea! 
Fountain of pleasure untold, 
Beautiful, beautiful Isle of the Sea! 


Oft, on your shell-girdled shore, 
Ew’ning has found me reclining, 
Vision of youth dreaming o’er, 
Down where the light-house was shining 
Far from the gladness you gave, 
_. Far from all joys worth possessing, 
Still, o’er the lone, weary wave, 
Comes to the wand’rer your blessing ! 
Land of the True and the Old, 
Home ever dear unto me— 
_ Fountain of pleasure untold, 
Beautiful Isle of the Sea! 
Fountain of pleasure untold, 
Beautiful, beautiful Isle of the Sea! 


ae 


18 ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 


BEN BOLT. 


Ox! don’t you remember sweet Alice, Ben Bolt, 
Sweet Alice with hair so brown? 
She wept with delight when you gave her a smile, 
And trembled with fear at your frown. 
In the old church-yard in the valley, Ben Bolt, 
In a commer obscure and alone, 
They have fitted a slab of granite so gray, 
And poor Alice lies under the stone. 
They have fitted, ete. 


Oh! don’t you remember the wood, Ben Bolt, 
Near the green sunny slope of the hill; 
Where oft we have sung ’neath its wide-spreading shades, 
And kept time to the click of the mill? 
The mill has gone to decay, Ben Bolt, 
And a guiet now reigns all around ; 
See the old rustic porch, with its roses so sweet, 
Lies scatter’d and fall’n to the ground. 
See the old, eto. 


Oh! don’t you remember the school, Ben Bolt, 
And the master so kind and so true; 

And the little nook by the clear running brook, 
Where we gather’d the flowers as they grew ? 

On the master’s grave grows the grass, Ben Bult, 
And the running little brook is now dry , 

And of all the friends who were school-mates then, 


There remain, Ben, but you and I. 
And of all, ete. 





CANDOR. 


Marivavx, a celebrated French writer of romances, 
who flourished in the first half of the last century, having 
one day met with a sturdy beggar, who asked charity of 
bim. be replied. “Vv gand friend strang and stont as von 


ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 19 


are, it is a shame that you do not go to work.” “ 
master!” said the beggar, “if you did but know how lazy 
Tam” “Well,” replied Marivaux, “I. see thou art aa 
honest fellow, here is half-a-crown for you.” 





BEFORE THE BATTLE. 


By the hope within us springing, 
~ — Herald of to-morrow’s strife ; 

By that sun, whose light is bringing 
Chains or freedom, death or life— 

Oh, remember life can be 

No charm for him who lives not free! 
Like the day-star in the wave, 
Sinks a hero in his grave, 

Midst the dew-fall of a nation’s tears. 
Happy is he o’er whose decline 
The smiles of home may soothing shine, 

And light him down the steep of years— 
But oh, how blest they sink to rest, 
Who close their eyes on victory’s breast! 


O’er his watch-fire’s fading embers 
Now the foeman’s cheek turns white, 
When his heart that field remembers, 
Where we tamed his tyrant might! 
Never let him bind again 
A chain like that we broke from then. 
Hark! the horn of combat calls— 
Ere the golden evening falls, 
May we pledge that horn in triumph round! 
Many a heart that now beats high, 
In slumber cold at night shall lie, 
Nor waken even at victory’s sound— 
But oh, how blest that hero’s sleep, 
O’er whom a wond’ring wor'd shall weep. 


£U ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 


BELIEVE ME, IF ALL THOSE ENDEARING’ 
YOUNG CHARMS. ; 


BELIEVE me, if all those endearing young charms, 
Which I gaze on so fondly to-day, 

Were to change by to-morrow, and fleet in my arms, 
Like fairy-gifts fading away, 

Thou wouldst still be adored, as this moment thou 
Let thy loveliness fade as it will, 

And around the dear ruin each wish of my heart 
Would entwine itself verdantly still. 


It is not while beauty and youth are thine own, © 
And thy cheeks unprofaned by a tear, 

That the fervor and faith of a soul can be known, 
To which time will but make thee more dear ; 

No, the heart that has truly loved never forgets, 

. But as truly loves on to the close, 

As the sunflower turns on her god, when he sets, 

The same look which she turned when he rose. 





BY THAT LAKE WHOSE GLOOMY SHORE. 


[This ballad is founded upon many of the storier related of St. 
Kevin, whose bed in the rock is to be seen at Glendalvagh, a mos 
gloomy and romantic spot in the county of Wicklow. 


By that Lake, whose gloomy shore 
Skylark never warbles o’er, 

Where the cliff hangs high and steay 
Young Saint Kevin stole to sleep. 

“ Here, at least,” he calmly said, 

“ ‘Woman ne’er shall find my bed.” 
Ah! the good Saint little knew 
What that wily sex can do. 


ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 31 


*T'was from Kathleen’s eyes he flew— 
Eyes of most unholy blue! 

She had loved him well and long, 
Wished him hers, nor thought it wrong 
Wheresoe’er the Saint would fly, 

Still he heard her light foot nigh; 
East or west, where’er he turned, 

Still her eyes befure him burned. 


On the bold cliff’s bosom cast, 
Tranquil now he sleeps at last ; 
Dreams of heaven, no1 thinks that e’es 
Woman’s smile can haunt him there. 
Bat nor earth nor heaven is free 

From her power, if fond she be: 

Even now, while calm he sleeps, 
Kathleen o’er him leans and weeps. 


Feariess she had tracked his feet 
To this rocky, wild retreat ; 

And, when morning met his view, 
Her mild glances met it too. 

Ah! your Saints have cruel hear‘s; 
Sternly from his bed he starts, 
And, with rude, repulsive shock, 
Hurls her from the beetling rock ! 


Glendalough! thy gloomy wave 
Soon was gentle Kathleen’s grave « 
Soon the Saint (yet, ah! too late) 
Felt her love, and mourned her fate 
When he said, “Heaven rest her sovd 
Round the lake tight music stole ; 
And her ghost was seen to glide, 
Smiling, o’er the fatal tide ! 


g HKIN-GU-BKAGH SUNGS'Lask. 


BEAUTIFUL ERIN. 


BEAUTIFUL Erin! I leave thy shore, 
For a home far over the sea; 
But where Niagara’s waters roar, 
This heart still wiil beat for thee. 
In fancy I’ll roam the mountain side, 
Where the homes of my fathers stand ; 
And I’ll sing amid the dark woods wide, 
The songs of my own green land, 
I'll sing, I’ll sing the songs of my own green land, 
Y’ll sing, I'll sing the songs of my own green land, 


Breaking the bough with weary toil, 
In that land where plenty flows, 
V'll sigh for my own dear verdant soil, _ 
Where my native shamrock grows. 
Oh! beautiful Erin, then fare thee well, 
Dear home of my childhood’s hours ! 
No more ’mid thy fond bright scenes I dwell, 
Farewell to thy fields and flowers, 
Farewell! farewell ! farewell to thy fields and fow’ss 
Farewell! loved Erin, oh fare thee well. 





BY THE HOPE WITHIN US SPRINGING 
By the hope within us springing, 
Herald of to-morrow’s strife ; 
And by that sun, whose light is bringing, 
Chaing or freedom, death or life— 
Oh! " member life can be 
No charm for him who lives not free 
Like the day-star in the wave, 
Sinks a hero to his grave 
Midst the dew-fall of a nation’s tears. 
Blessed is he, o’er whose decline 
The smiles of home may soothing shine 
And light him down the steep of years; 
But oh! how grand they sink to rest, 
Who close their eyes on victory’s breast. 


ERLIN-GU-BKAGH SUNGSLEN,  - 3a 


Over his watch-fire’s fading embers, 
Now the foeman’s cheek turns white 
Ween his boding heart that field remembers 
Where we dimim’d his glury’s light. 
Never let him bind again 
A charm like that we broke from them. 
Hak! the horn of combat calls— 
Ob ! before the evening falls, 
May we pledge that horn in triumph round. 
Many a b2art that now beats high. 
In slumber cold at night shall lie, 
Nor waken even at victory’s sound. 
But oh ! how blest that hero’s sleep 
O’er whom a wond’ring world shall weep. 


COLLEEN BAWN. 


"T'was on a bright morning in summer 
I first heard his voice speakin’ low, 
As he said to a colleen beside me, 
Who’s that purty girl milking her cow? 
Oh! many times afther ye met me, 
An’ vowed that I always should be 
Your darlin’ acushla, alanna, mavourneen, 
A suilish machree. 


I haven’t the manners or graces 
Of the girls in the world where ye m ve, 
2 havn't their beautiful faces, 
But oh! I’ve a heart that can love ; 
* Tf it plaise ye, I’ll dress me in satin, 
Aw’ jewels I'll put on my brow, 
But oh ! don’t be afther forgettin’ 
Your purty girl milking her cow. 


* The Irish Corna was not entirely devoted to ma t*f purposea 
In the heroic ages, our ancestors quaffed Meadb out ¥ hem, as the 
Danish hunters do their heverage at this dav. 


24 ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 


COME O’ER THE SEA. 


ComE o’er the sea, maiden, with me— 
Mine through sunshine, storm, and SnOWS ; 
Seasons may roll, but the true soul 
Burns the same, where’er it goes. 
Let Fate frown on, so we love and part not; 
"L's life where thow art, ’tis death where thou art not 
Then come o’er the sea, maiden, with me-- 
Come wherever the wild wind blows; 
Seasons may roll, but the true soul 
Burns the same, where’er it goes. 


Was not the sea for the free, 
Land for courts and chains alone ? 
Here we are slaves, but, on the waves, 
Love and liberty’s all our own ; 
No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, 
All earth forgot, and all heaven around us— 
Then come o’er the sea, maiden, with me, 
Mine through sunshine, storm, and snows; 
Seasons may roll, but the true soul 
Burns the same where’er it goes. 





COME, REST IN THIS BOSOM. 


Come, rest in this bosom, my own stricken deer; 

Though the herd have fled from thee, thy home is stil 
here 

Here still is the smile that no cloud can o’ercast,. 

And a heart and a hand all thy own to the last. 


Oh! what was love made for, if ’tis not the same 

Through joy and through torment, through glory and 
shame ? 

I know not, I ask not, if guilt’s in that heart-— 

I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art ! 


ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 25 


Chon hast called me thy angel in moments of bliss, 

And thy angel Ill be, ’mid the horrors of this, 

Through the furnace, unshrinking, thy steps to pursue, 
And shield thee, and save thee, or perish there too! 





COME BACK TO ERIN. 


ComE back to Erin, mavourneen, mavourneen, 
Come back, aroon, to the land of thy birth, 
Come with the shamrocks and spring-time, mavourpees 
And it’s Killarney shall ring with our mirth. 
Sure, when we lent you to beautiful England, 
Little we thought of the lone winter days, 
Little we thought of the hush of the star shine 
Over the mountains, the bluffs and the braes! 


CHORUS. 


Come back to Erin, mavourneen, mavourneen, 
Come back again to the land of thy birth, 
Come back to Erin, mavourneen, mavourneen, 

And it’s Killarney shall ring with our mirth. 


Over the green sea, mavourneen, mavourneen, 
Long shone the white sail that bore thee away, 
Riding the white waves, that fair summer mornin’, 
Just like a mayflower afloat on the bay. 
Oh! but my heart sank when clouds came between usa, 
Like a gray curtain the rain falling down, 
Hid from my sad eyes the path o’er the ocean, 
Far, far away where my colleen had flown. 
Come back to Erin, ete 


Oh! may the angels, oh, wakin’ and sleepin’, 
Watch o’er my bird in the land far away ! 
And it’s my prayer will consign to their keepin’ 
Care 0’ my jewel by night and by day. 
2 


26 EKIN-GO-BKAGH SONGSTER. 


When by the fireside I watch the bright embers, | 
Then all my heart flies to England and thee, 
Uravin’ to know if my darlin’ remembers, 
Or if her thoughts may be crossin’ to me. 
Come back to Erin, ete 





COME, SEND ROUND THE WINE. 


ComE, send round the wine, and leave points of belief 
To simpleton sages and reasoning fools ; 

This moment’s a flower too fair and brief, 
To be withered and stained by the dust of the schools 


Your glass may be purple, and mine may be blue, 
But, while they are filled from the same bright bowl 
‘The fool that would quarrel for difference of hue 
Deserves not the comfort they shed o’er the soul. 


Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side 
In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree ? 

Shall I give up the friend I have valued and tried, 
If he kneel not before the same altar with me? 


From the heretic girl of my soul should I fly, 
To seek somewhere else a more orthodox kiss 1 
No—perish the hearts and the laws that try 
Truth, valor, or love, by a standard like this! 





COULDST 'THOU LOOK AS DEAR. | 


CouLps1 thou look as dear as when 
First I sighed for thee, 
Couldst thou make me feel again 
Every wish I breathed thee then, 
Oh, how blissful life would be! 
Hopes that now beguiling leave me, 
Joys that lie in slumber cold, 
All would wake, couldst thou but give me 
One dear smile like those of old 


ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 2 


Oh, there’s nothing left us now, 
But to mourn the past ! 

Vain was every ardent vow ; 

Never yet did Heaven allow 
Love so warm, so wild, to last. 

Not even hope could now deceive me— 
Life itself looks dark and cold ; 

Oh, thou never more canst give me 
One dear smile like those of old ! 


LOVE’S YOUNG DREAM. 


Ou! the days are gone when beauty bright 
My heart’s chain wove, 

When my dream of life from morn ’till nigkt 
Was love, @till love. 

New hopes may bloom and days may come 
Of milder, calmer beam, 

But there’s nothing half so sweet in life 
As love’s young dream, 

Oh there’s nothing half so sweet in life 
As love’s young dream. 


Tho’ the bard to purer fame may soar, 
When wild youth’s past, 

Tho’ he win the wise, who frowned before, 
To smile at last ; 

He'll never meet a joy 8» sweet, 
In all his noon of fame, 

As when first he sung to woman’s ear 
His soul felt flame, 

And at every close she blushed to hear 
The one loved name. 


Oh that fairy form is ne’er forgot, 
Which first love traced, 

Still it lingering haunts the greenest spot 
On mewory’s waste 


KRIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 


"Twas odor, fled as soon as shed, 
’Twas morning’s winged dream, 

"Twas a light that ne’er can shine again 
On life’s dull stream ; 

Oh ! ’twas light that ne’er can shine again 
On life’s dull stream. 


COLLEEN DHAS CRUTHIN AMOE. 


Tue beam on the streamlet was playing, 
The dew-drop still hung on the thorn, 
When a blooming young couple were straying, 
To taste the mild fragrance of morn. 
He sighed as he breathed forth his ditty, 
And she felt her breast softly to grow : 
“Q, look on your lover with pity, 
Ma Colleen dhas Cruthin Amoe.” 


“Whilst green is yon bank’s mossy pillow, 
Or evening shall weep the soft tear, 

Or the streamlet shall steal ‘neath the willow, 
So long shall thy image be dear. 

O, fly to these arms for protection, 
If pierced by the arrow of woe, 

Then smile on my tender affection, 
Ma Colleen dhas Cruthin Amoe.” 


She sighed as his ditty was ended, 
Her heart was too full to reply ; 

Oh, joy and compassion were blended 
To light the mild beam of her eye. 

He kissed her soft hand : ‘‘ What above thee 
Could heaven, in its bounty, bestow ?” 

He kissed her soft cheek : ‘Oh, I love thee, 
Ma Colleen dhas Cruthin Amoe.” 


ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 29 


DEAR HARP OF MY COUNTRY. 


{In that rebellious but beautiful song, “‘ When Erin first arose,” 
there is, if I recollect right, the following line: ‘The dark chain of 
silence was thrown o’er the deep.” The chain of silence wasa sort 
of practical figure of rhetoric among the ancient Irish. Walker tells 
as of “A celebrated contention for precedence between Fin ané 
Gaul, near Finn’s palace, at Almhaim, where the attending bards, 
anxious if possible, to produce a cessation of hostilities, shook the 
chain of silence and flung themselves among the ranks. ] 


DEAR Harp of my country! in darkness I found thee ; 
The cold chain of silence had hung o’er thee long ; 

When proudly, my own island harp, I unbound thee, 
And gave all thy chords to light, freedom, and song! 

The warm lay of love and the light note of gladness 
Have wakened thy fondest, thy liveliest thrill; 

But so oft hast thou echoed the deep sigh of sadness, 
That even in thy mirth it will steal from thee still. 


Dear Harp of my country! farewell to thy numbers— 
This sweet wreath of song is the last we shall twine 
Go, sleep with the sunshine of Fame on thy slumbers, 
Till touched by some hand less unworthy than mine 
If the pulse of the patriot, soldier, or lover, 
Have throbbed at our lay, ’tis thy glory alone; 
I was but as the wind, passing heedlessly over, 
And all the wild sweetness I waked was thy ows. 





DRINK TO HER. 


Drink to her who long 
Hath waked the poet’s sigh, 
The girl who gave to song 
What gold could never buy. 
Oh, woman’s heart was made 
For minstrel hands alone; 
By other fingers played, 
It yields not half the tone! 


30 ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONG@B8i2DR. 


Then here’s to her who long 
Hath waked the poet’s sigh, 

The girl who gave to song 
What gold could never buy. 


At Beauty’s door of glass 
When Wealth and Wit once stood, 
They asked her, “ Which might pase ?* 
She answered, ‘He who could.” 
With golden key Wealth thought 
T’o pass—but ‘twould not do: 
While Wit a diamond brought, 
Which cut his bright way through. 
So here’s to her who long 
Hath waked the poet’s sigh, 
The girl who gave to song 
What gold could never buy. 


The love that seeks a home 
Where wealth and grandeur shine, 
Is like the gloomy gnome 
That dwells in the dark gold-mine. 
But oh! the poet’s love 
Can boast a brighter sphere ; 
Its native home’s above, 
Though women keep it here. 
Then drink to her who long 
Hath waked the poet’s sigh, 
The girl who gave to song 
What gold could never buy. 





DERMOT ASTHORE. 


0, Dexwor AsTHORE, between waking and sleepmg, 
I heard thy dear voice and wept to its lay, 

Every pulse of my heart the sweet measure was keeping 
Till Killarney’s wild echoes had borne it away. 


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4, tell me, my love, is this our last meeting ? 
Sliall we wander no more in Killarney’s green bowers, 
"9 watch the bright sun o’er the dim hill retreating, 
And the wild stag at rest in his bed of spring flowers 1 


} Dermot Asthore, how this fond heart would flutter, 
When I met thee by night in the shady boreen, 

(nd heard thine own voice in a soft whisper utter 
hose words of endearment—“ Mavour.een Colleen.” 


‘ know we must part, but oh, say not forever, 
That it may be for years adds enough to my pain ; 

®ut Pl cling to the hope, that though now we must sever 
In some blessed hour I shall meet thee ayain. 





INE OF DEAN SWIFT’S CERTIFICATES OF 
MARRIAGE. 


UnpER an oak, in stormy weather, 
I joined this rogue and wench together ; 
And none but He who rules the thunder 
Can put this wench and rogue asunder. 





DUBLIN BAY. 


MRS. CRAWFORD. 


Ife sail’d away in a gallant bark, 
Roy Neill and his fair young briag, 

Ife had ventur’d all in that bounding ark 
That danced o’er the silver tide. 

But his heart was young and bis spirit light, 
And he dashed the tear away, 

As he watched the shore recede from sight, 
Of his own sweet Dublin Bay. 


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Three days they sail’d, and a storm arose, 
And the lightning swept the deep, 

And the thunder-crash broke the short repose, 
Of the weary sea-boy’s sleep. 

Roy Neill, he clasped his weeping bride, 
And he kiss’d her tears away, 

“Oh, love, ’twas a fatal hour,” she cried, 
“When we left sweet Dublin Bay.” 


On the crowded deck of the doomed ship 
Some stood in their mute despair, 

And some, more calm, with a holy lip, 
Sought the God of the storm in prayer. 

“She has struck on the rock!” the seamen cried, 
In the breath of their wild dismay, 

And the ship went down and the fair young bride 
That sailed from Dublin Bay. 


ERIN, MAVOURNEEN. 


WHEN the pure sense of honor shall cease to inspire thee 
And kind hospitality leaves thy gay shore; 

When the nations that know thee, no longer admire thee, 
Then, Erin, mavourneen, I'll love thee no more. 


When the trumpet of fame shall cease to proclaim thee, 
Of warriors the nurse, in the ages of yore, 

When the muse and the record of genius disclaim thee, 
Then, Erin, mavourneen, I'll love thee no more. 


Zz 


When thy brave sons no longer are generous and witty 
And cease to be loved by the fair they adore, 

When thy daughters no longer are virtuous and pretty, 
Then, Erin, mavourneen, [’ll love thee no more. 


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ERIN, O ERIN! 
LIKE the bright lamp that shone in\Kildare’s holy fane, 
And burned through long ages of darkness and storm, 
Is the heart that sorrows have frowned on in vain, 
Whose spirit outlives them, unfading and warm. 
Erin, O Erin, thus bright through the tears 
Of a long night of bondage thy spirit appears. 


The nations have fallen, and thou still art young ; 
Thy sun is but rising, when others’ is set : 
And though slavery’s cloud o’er thy morning hath hung, 
The full noon of freedom shall beam round thee yet 
Grin, O Erin, though long in the shade, 
Chy star will shine out when the proudest shall fade | 


(nchilled by the rain, and unwaked by the wind, 
The lily lies sleeping through winter’s cold hour, 
Mill Spring’s light touch her fetters unbind, 
And daylight and liberty bless the young flower 
Chus Erin, O Erin, thy winter is past, 
4nd the hope that lived through it shall blossom at last! 





ERIN! THE TEAR AND THE SMILE IN THINE 
EYES. 


Eri! the tear and the smile in thine eyes 
Blend like the rainbow that hangs in thy skies! 
Shining through sorrow’s stream, 
Saddening through pleasure’s beam, 
Thy suns with doubtful gleam 
Weep while they rise. 


Erin! thy silent tear never shall cease, 
Erin! thy languid smile ne’er shall increase, 
Till, like the rainbow’s light, 
Thy various tints unite, 
And form, in Heaven’s sight, 
One arch of peace! 
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34 BRIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 


EVELEEN’S BOWER. 


Ox! weep for the hour when to Eveleen’s bower 
The Lord of the Valley with false vows came ; 

The moon hid her light from the heavens that night, 
And wept behind the clouds o’er the maiden’s shame 


The clouds passed soon from the chaste, cold moon, 
And heaven smiled again with her vestal flame ; 

But none will see the day when the clouds shall pass away 
Which that dark hour left on Eveleen’s fame. 


The white snow lay on the narrow pathway, , 
When the Lord of the Valley crossed over the moor 
And many a deep print on the white snow’s tint 
Showed the track of his footsteps to Eveleen’s door. 


The next sun’s ray soon melted away 
Every trace on the path where the false lord came 
But there’s a light above, which alone can remove 
That stain upon the snow of fair Eveleen’s fame 


ERIN IS MY HOME. 


Ou, I have roamed in many lands, 
And many friends I’ve met, 

Not one fair scene or kindly smile 
Can this fond heart forget. 

But I’ll confess that I’m content, 
No more I wisk to roam : 

Oh, steer my bark for Erin’s Isle, 
Wor Erin ie mv ho~ 


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If England were my place of birth, 
Vd love her tranquil shore, 

And if Columbia were my home, 
Her freedom Id adore ; | 

Tho’ pleasant days in both I’ve passed, 
I dream of days to come; 

Oh, steer my bark to Erin’s Isle, 
For Erin is my home 


EVER OF THEE. 
GEORGE LINLEY. 


Ever of thee I’m fondly dreaming ; 
Thy gentle voice my spirit can cheer ; 
Thou wert the star that, mildly beaming, 
Shone o’er my path when all was dark and dzses 
Still in my heart thy form I cherish ; 
Ev’ry kind thought like a bird flies to thee. 
Ah, never, till life and memory perish, 
Can I forget how dear thou art to me— 
Morn, noon, and night, where’er I may be, 
Fondly I’m dreaming ever of thee. 


Ever of thee, when sad and lonely, 

Wandering afar, my soul’s joy, to dwell— 
Ah, then I felt I loved thee only: 

All seem’d to fade before affection’s spell. 
Years have not chill’d the love I cherish, 

True as the stars hath my heart been to thee, 
Ah, never till life and memory perish, 

Can I forget how dear thou art to me. 
Morn, noon, and night, where’er I may be, 

Fondly I’m dreaming ever of thee 


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ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER 


CHE FARMER AND THE COUNSELLOB 


A COUNSEL in the Common Pleas, 

Who was esteem’d a mighty wit, 

Upon the strength of a chance hit 

Amid a thousand flippancies, 

And his occasional bad jokes 

In bullying, bantering, browbeating, 
Ridiculing and maltreating 

Women or other timid folks, 

In a late cause resolved to hoax 

A clownish Yorkshire farmer—one 
Who, by his uncouth look and gait, 
Appear’d expressly meant by fate 

For being quizz’d and play’d upon: 

So, having tipp’d the wink to those 

In the back rows, 

Who kept their laughter bottled down 
Until our wag should draw the cork ; 
He smiled jocosely on the clown, 

And went to work. 

“ Well, Farmer Numscull, how go calves at York 
“ Why—not, sir, as they do wi’ you, 
But on four legs instead of two.” 

“ Officer!” cried the legal elf, 

Piqued at the laugh against himself, 
“Do pray keep silence down below there. 
Now look at me, clown, and attend. 
Have I not seen you somewhere, friend ?”—- 
“ Yees—very like—I often go there.” 

“ Our rustic’s waggish—-quite laconic,” 
The counsel cried, with grin sardonic ;— 
“T wish I’d known this prodigy— 

This genius of the clods, when I 

On circuit was at York residing. 

Now, Farmer, do for once speak true— 
Mind, you’re on cath, so tell me, you, . 


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Who doubtless think yourself sv clever, 
Are there as many fools as ever 

In the West Riding ?” 

“ Why, no, sir, no; we’ve got oar share, 
But not so many as when you were there.” 





FAREWELL! BUT WHENEVER YOU WELCOME 
THE HOUR. 


FAREWELL !—but whenever you welcome the hour 
That awakens the night-song of mirth in your bower, 
- Then think of the friend who once welcomed it too, 
And forgot his own griefs to be happy with you. 

His griefs may return—not a hope may remain 

Of the few that have brightened his pathway of pain ; 
But he ne’er will forget the short vision that threw 
Its enchantment around him, while ling’ring with you 


And still on that evening, when pleasure fills up 

To the highest top-sparkle each heart and each cup, 
Where’er my path lies, be it gloomy or bright, 

My soul, happy friends, shall I e with you that night; 
Shall join in your revels, your sports, and your wiles, 
And return to me beaming all o’er with your smiles— 
Too blest, if it tells me that, ’mid the gay cheer, 

Some kind voice had murmured, “I wish he were here Ez 


Let Fate do her worst—there are relics of joy, 

Bright dreams of the past, which she cannot destroy ; 
Which come in the night-time of sorrow and care, 

And bring back the features that Joy used to wear. 
Long, long be my heart with such memories filled ! 
Like the vase, in which roses have once been distilled-— 
You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will, 
But the scent of the roses will bang round it still. 


38 ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 


ENTRAPPING A WITNESS. 


AN illustration of O’Connell’s dexterity in compassing ax 


unfortunate culprit’s acquittal may be here narrated. He 
was employed in defending a prisoner who was tried for 
murder committed in the vicinity of Cork. 

The principal witness swore strongly against the priso- 
ner—one corroborative circumstance was, that the prisoners 
bat was found near the place where the murder took place. 
‘I'he witness swore positively that the hat produced was the 
one found, and that it belonged to the prisoner, whose 
name was James. 

“ By virtue of your oath, are you positive that this hat 
is the same hat?” ‘ Yes.” ‘Did you examine it care- 
fully before you swore in your informations that it was the 
prisoner's?” “Yes.” ‘“ Now let me see,” said O’Connell, 
and he took up the hat, and began carefully to examine 
the inside. He then spelled aloud the name James slowly 
thus: “J-a-m-e-s.” “Now, do you mean those words 
were in the hat when you found it?” “I do.” “Did 
you see them there?” “TI did.” “This is the same hat ” 
“Tt is.’ “Now, my lord,” said O’Connell, holding up the 
hat to the bench, “there is an end to the case. There is 
no name whatever inscribed in the hat.” 

The result was instant acquittal. 


es eee 


FILL THE BUMPER FAIR. 


Fru the bumper fair! | 
Every drop we sprinkle 
O’er the brow of Care 
Smoothes away a wrinkle. 
Wit’s electric flame 
Ne’er so swiftly passes 
As when through the frame 
It shoots from brimming glasses. 


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Fill the bumper fair ! 
Every drop we sprinkle 
Yer the brow of Care 
Smoothes awav a wrinkle. 


Sages can, they say, 

Grasp- the lightning’s pinions, 
And bring down its ray 

From the starr’d dominions : 
So we, sages, sit, 

And ‘mid bumpers bright’ning, 
From the heaven of wit 

Draw down all its lightning. 


Wouldst thou know what first 
Made our souls inherit 
This ennobling thirst 
For wine’s celestial spirit ? 
It chanced upon that day 
When, as bards inform us, 
Prometheus stole away 
The living fires that warm us, 


The careless Youth, when up 
To Glory’s fount aspiring, 
Took nor urn nor cup 
To hide the pilfered fire i in— 
But oh, his joy ! when round 
The halls of heaven spying, 
Among the stars he found 
A bowl of Bacchus lying! 


Some drops were in that bowl, 
Remains of last night’s pleasure 

With which the Sparks of Soul 
Mixed their burning treasure 


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ERIN-GO-BRAGH SuxGSTER. 


Hence the goblet’s shower 
Hath such spells to win us; 
Hence its mighty power 
O’er that flame within us. 
Fill the bumper fair! 
Every drop we sprinkle 
O’er the brow of Care 
Smoothes away a wrinkle. 





FLY NOT YET. 


FLy not yet: ’tis just the hour 
When pleasure, like the midnight owes 
That scorns the eye of vulgar light, 
Begins to bloom for sons of night 
And maids who love the moon. 
Twas but to bless these hours of shade 
That beauty and the moon were made ; 
"Tis then their soft attractions, glowing, 
Set the tides and goblets flowing. 
Oh, stay !—oh, stay !— 
Joy so seldom weaves a chain 
Like this to-night, that oh! ’tis pain 
T’o break its links so soon. 


Fly not yet: the fount that played 
In times of old through Ammon’s shade, 
Though icy cold by day it ran, 
Yet still, like souls of mirth, began 
_ To bum when night was near. 
And thus should woman’s heart and look 
At noon be cold as winter brooks, 
Nor kindle till the night, returning, 
Brings their genial hour for burning. 
Oh, stay !—oh, stay !— 
When did morning ever break, 
And find such beaming eyes awake 
As those that sparkle here? 


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FROM LIFE WITHOUT FREEDOM. 


F Rom life without freedom, oh, who would not fly? 
For one day of freedom, oh, who would not die? 
Hark, hark ! ’tis the trumpet, the call of the brave, 
The death-song of tyrants and dirge of the slave. 
Our country lies bleeding—oh, fly to her aid! 

One arm that defends is worth hosts that invade. 


In Death’s kindly bosom our last hope remains— 

The dead fear no tyrants; the grave has no chains: 
On, on to the combat! the heroes that bleed 

For virtue and mankind, are heroes indeed ! 

And oh, even if Freedom from this world be drives, 
Despair not—at least we shall find her in heaven ! 





GO V/HERE GLORY WAITS THER, 


Go where glory waits thee, 
But while fame elates thee, 

Oh! still remember me. 
When the praise thou meetest, 
To thine ear is sweetest, 

Oh! then remember me. 
Other arms may press thee 
Dearer friends caress thee, 
All the joys that bless thee, 

Sweeter far may be; 

But when friends are nearest, 
And when joys are dearest, 
Oh! then remember me. 


When, at eve, thou rovest 
By the star thou lovest, 

Oh! then remember me. 
Think, when home returning, 
Bright we’ve scen it burning 

Oh! thus remember me. 


ba ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 

Oft, as summer closes, 

When thine eye reposes 

On its ling’ring roses, : 
Once so loved by thee, 

Think of her who wove them, 

Her who made thee love them— — 
Oh! then remember me. 


When, around thee dying, 
Autumn leaves are lying, 
Oh ! then remember me. 
And, at night, when gazing 
On the gay hearth, blazing, 
Oh! still remember me. 
Then should music, stealing, 
All the soul of feeling, 
To thy heart appealing, _ 
Draw one tear from thee ; 
Then let memory bring thee 
Strains I used to sing thee— 
Oh! then remember me. 


GIVE ME A COT IN THE VALLEY I LOVE 


Give me a cot in the valley I love, 

A tent in the greenwood, a home in the grove; 

I care not how humble, for happy ’twould be, 

If one faithful heart will but share it with me. 

Our haunts shall be nature’s own beautiful bowers, 
Our gems shall be nature’s own beautiful flowers 5. 
All woo’d by the sunshine, and kissed by the gale, 
The proudest might envy var home in the vale 


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Lov’st thou to listen to music’s sweet voice, ; 
Then fly to the woods where the song birds rejoice— 
_ Or wouldst thou be free, to the forest repair, 

The stag in its freedom bounds merrily there. 
When summer nas gone, and winter's chill hours 
Have rifled the greenwood and blighted the flowers— 
Tho’ ice-bound the brook, and snow-clad the dale, 
The proudest might envy our home in the vale. 





GRACE DARLING; 
OR, THE WRECKER’S DAUGHTER. 


‘Ou! father loved! the storm is raging, 
And cold and heavy the night mist falls; 
Some hapless crew, a prey to danger, 
For help, for help, despairing calls. 
Trim, trim the lamp—the boat launch quickly, 
Though dangers threaten, the worst we'll brave. 
The toil I heed not, if we can rescue 
The shipwreck’d wanderers from the grave. 
Oh! father loved ! the storm is raging, 
And cold and heavy the night wind falls ; 
The boat launch quickly—the boat launch quiakly, 
Some hapless crew for help now calls.” 


“My gentle child, ’t were worse than madness, 
T'o tempt the billow this fearful night ; 
Again to sleep—to rest betake thee : 
Await—await the morning’s light.” 
“ T cannot sleep—their shrieks appall me— 
Oh, father! heard you that piercing cry? 
Arise thee ! hasten! the day is breaking! 
Look out! look out! a wreck I spy. 
Oh! father loved! I fear no danger: 
With thee I will boldly breast the wave; 
The boat launch quickly—the boat launch quickly 
Yon hapless crew we yet may save.” 


44 ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 


The boat is launch’d—through breakers roaring, 
Like some wild bird the frail skiff flew ; 
That gentle girl, with love unshaken, 
Has saved from death that hapless crew. 
‘L'be danger past, her heart beats lightly, 
Her silent transport no pride betrays ; 
Though grateful tears are round her falling, 
And hearts are throbbing to her praise 
The danger past, her heart beats lightly, 
__ Her silent transport no pride betrays, 
‘Though grateful tears are round her falling, 
And hearts are throbbing to her praise. 





SWIFT AMONG THE LAWYERS. 


Dean Swirt having preached an assize sermon in 
Ireland was invited to dine with the judges; and having 
in his sermon considered the use and abuse of the law, 
he then pressed a little hard upon those counsellors who 
plead causes which they know in their conscience to be 
wrong. When dinner was over, and the glass began te 
go round, a young barrister retorted upon the Dean; and | 
after several altercations the counsellor asked him if the 
devil was to die whethera parson might not be found who, for 
money, would preach his funeral sermon, “ Yes,” said Swift, 
“T would gladly be the man, and I would then give the devil 
his due, as ] have done this day to his children.” 


HAS SORROW THY YOUNG DAYS SHADED? 


HAs sorrow thy young days shaded 
As clouds o’er the morning fleet? 
Too fast have those young days faded, 
That, even (n sorrow, were sweet 2 


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Does Time, with his cold wing, wither 
Each feeling that once was dear !— 
Then, child of misfortune, come hither ! 

I'll weep with thee, tear for tear. 


Has Love to that soul so tender, 
Been like our Lagenian mine, 
Where sparkles of golden splendor 

All over the surface shine ? 

But, if in pursuit we go deeper, 
Allured by the gleam that shone, 
Ah, false as the dream of the sleeper, 

Like Love, the bright ore is gone! 


Has Hope, like the bird in the story, 
That flitted from tree to tree 

With the talisman’s glittering glory— 
Has Hope been that bird to thee ? 

On branch after branch alighting, 
The gem did she still display, 

And, when nearest and most inviting, 
Then waft the fair gem away ? 


If thus the young hours have fleeted, 
When so:row itself looked bright ; 

If thus the fair hope had cheated, 
That led thee along so light, 

If thus the cold world now wither 
Each feeling that once was dear ; 
Come, child of misfortune, come hither 
I'll weep with thee, tear for tear. 





HOW DEAR TO ME THE HOUR! 


How dear to me the hour when daylight dies, 
And sunbeams melt along the silent sea ! 

For then sweet dreams of other days arise, 
And memory breathes her vesper sigh to thee. 


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And, as I watch the line of light, that plays 

Along the smooth wave toward the burning west, 
I long to tread that golden path of rays, 

And think ‘twould lead to some bright isle of rest 


HOW OFT HAS THE BANSHEE CKIED 


How oft has the Banshee cried ! 

Hew oft has Death united 

Bright links that Glory wove, 

Sweet bonds entwined by Love! 
Peace to each manly soul that sleepeta ; 
Rest to each faithful eye that weepeth ; 

Long may the fair and brave 

Sigh o’er the hero’s grave! 


We're fallen upon gloomy days! 
Star after star decays, 
Every bright name that shed 
Light o’er the land is fled. 
Dark falls the tear of him who mournetb 
Lost joy, or hope that ne’er returneth : 
But brightly flows the tear 
Wept o’er a hero’s bier. 


Quenched are our beacon-lighte— 

Thou, of the Hundred Fights! 

Thou, on whose burning tongue 

‘Truth, peace, and freedom hung ! 
Both mute—but long as valor shineth, 
Or mercy’s soul at war repineth, 

80 long shal] Erin’s pride 

Tell how they lived and died! 


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HERE’S THE BOWER. 


Herr’s the bower she loved so much, 
And the trees she planted ; 
Here’s the harp she used to touch— 
Oh, how that touch enchanted ! 
Roses now unheeded sigh, 
Where’s the hand to wreathe them f 
Songs around neglected lie, 
here’s the lip to breathe them ? 
Heie ’s the bower she loved so much, 
And the tree she planted ; 
Here’s the harp she used to touch— 
Oh, how that touch enchanted ! 


Spring may bloom, but she we loved 
Ne’er shall feel its sweetness ; 

Time, that once so fleetly moved, 
Now hath lost its fleetness. 

Years were days, when here she strayed 
Days were moments near her; 

Heaven ne’er formed a brighter maid, 
Nor Pity wept a dearer! 

Here’s the bower she loved so much, 
And the tree she planted ; 

Here’s the harp she used to touch— 
Oh, how that touch enchanted ! 





HIGHLAND MARY. 


Ye banks and braes and streams around 


The castle of Montgomery ; 
Green be your woods, and fair your flowers, 
Your waters never drumlie ; 


There simmer first unfaulds her robes, 


And there they longest tarry ; 
For there I took the last farewell, 
O’ my sweet Highland Mary. 


48 ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 


How sweetly bloomed the gay green birk, 
How rich the hawthorn’s blossom, 
As underneath their fragrant shade, 
I clasped her to my bosom! 
The golden hours on angel’s wings, 
Flew o’er me and my dearie; 
For dear to me as light and life, 
Was my sweet Highland Mary. 


Wi’ monie a vow and locked embrace, 
Our parting was fu’ tender, 

And pledging aft to meet again, 
We tore ourselves asunder. 

But oh! fell death’s untimely frost, 
That nipt my friend sae early, 

Now green’s the sod, and cauld the olay, 
That wraps my Highland Mary. 


O pale, pale now, those rosy lips, 
I oft hae kissed so fondly ! 

I’ve los’d for aye the sparkling glanoe, 
That dwelt on me so kindly! 

Ah! mouldering now in silent dust, 
The heart that lo’ed me dearly! 

But still within my bosom’s core, 
Shall live my Highland Mary. 





HER BRIGHT SMILE HAUNTS ME STILL. 


*T'1s years since last we met, and we may not meet again; 

I have struggled to forget, but that struggle was in vain. 

For her voice lives ou the breeze, and her spit comes at 
will ; 

In the midnight on the leas, her bright smile Launts ne 
still. 


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At the first sweet: dawn of light, when I gaze upon the 

Her ree ‘still greets my sight, while the stars their vigila 

When Tlose mine aching eyes, sweet dreams my senses 

hae fm sleep when I arise, her bright smile haunts me 
still. 


I have sailed ’neath alien skies, I have trod the desert 
path ; 

I have seen the storm arise like a giant in his wrath. 

Every danger I have known that a reckless life can fill, 

Yet her presence is not flown, her bright smile haunts me 
still. * 





JUDGE BOAT. 
SWIFT. 

HERE lies Judge Boat within a coffin, 
Pray, gentlefolks, forbear your scoffin’ ; 
A boat a judge! Yes, where’s the blunder 1 
A wooden judge is no such wonder ! 
And in his robes you must agree, 
No boat was better deckt than he. 
"Tis needless to describe him. fuller, 
In short he was an able sculler. 





I CANNOT SING THE OLD SONGS. 
- C* ARIBEL. 


I cannot sing the old songs 
I sung long years ago: 
For heart and voice would fail me, 
And foolish tears would flow ; 
For bygone hours come o’er my heart, 
With each fam’‘liar strain : 
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I cannot sing the old songs, 

Or dream those dreams again; - 
I cannot sing the old songs, 

Or dream those dreams again! 


I cannot sing the old songs, 
Their charm is sad and deep; 
Their melodies would waken 
Old sorrows from their sleep ; 
And tho’ all unforgotten still, 
And sadly sweet they be— 
I cannot sing the old songs, 
They are too dear to me; 
I cannot sing the old songs, 
They are too dear to me! 


I cannot sing the old songs: 
For visions come again 
Of golden dreams departed, 
And years of weary pain. 
Perhaps, when earthly fetters shall 
Have set my spirit free, 
My voice may know the old sungs, 
For all eternity ! 
My voice may know the old songs, 
For all eternity ! 


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PLL HANG MY HARP ON A WILLOW TREE 


T. HAYNES BAYLY. 





P’Lu hang my harp on a willow tree, 
Vl] off to the wars again ; 

My peaceful home hes no charms for me, 
The battle-field no pain. 

The lady I love will soon be a bride, 
With a diadem on her brow; 

Ob! why did she flatter my boyish pride? 
She’s going to leave me now. 


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She took me away from my warlike lord, 
And gave me a silken suit ; 

I thought no more of my master’s sword, 
When I played on my master’s lute. 

She seem’d to think me a boy above 
Her pages of low degree. 

Oh! had I but lov’d with a boyish love, 
It would have been better for me. 


Then I’ll hide in my breast ev’ry selfish care, 
Vl] flush.my pale cheek with wine, 
When smiles awake the bridal pair, 
Vl hasten to give them mine. 
Y'll laugh and I’ sing, though my heart may bleed, 
And V’ll walk in the festive train ; : 
And if I survive it ’ll mount my steed, 
And off to the wars again. 


But one golden tress of her hair [ll twine 
In my helmet’s sable plume, 
And then, on the field of Palestine 
Vil seek an ear ly doom : 
And if by the Saracen’s hand I fall, 
’Mid the noble and the brave, 
A tear from my lady-love is all 
[ ask for the warrior’s grave. 





Y’D MOURN THE HOPES 


('D mourn the hopes that leave me, 
If thy smiles had left me too: 
1’d weep when friends deceive me, 
If thou wert, like them, untrue. 
But while I’ve thee before me, 
With heart so warm and eyes so bnght, 
No clouds can linger o’er me— 
TLat smile turns them all to light 


82 ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 


"Tis not in Fate to harm me, 

While Fate leaves thy love to me; 
"Tis not in Joy to charm me, 

Unless Joy be shared with thee. 
One minute’s dream about thee, 

Were worth a long, an endless year 
Of waking bliss without thee, 

My own love, my only dear! 


And though the hope be gone, love, 
That long sparkled o’er our way, 
Oh! we shall journey on, love, 
More safely, without its ray. 
Far better lights shall win me 
Along the path I’ve yet to rram— 
The mind that burns within me, 
And pure smiles from thee at home 





ILL OMENS. 


) 4n. daylight was yet sleeping under the billow, 
sinu stars in the heavens still lingering shone, 

Ywang Kitty, all blushing, rose up from her pillow, 
Ive last tne she e’er was to press it alone. 

Fur tne youth whom she treasured her heart and her sou) tm, 
{fad promised to link the last tie before noon ; 

Aad when once the young heart of a maiden is stolen, 
Che maiden herself will steal after it soon. 


As she looked in the glass which a woman ne’er misses, 
Nor ever wants time for a sly glance or two, 
A butterfly, fresh from the night-flower’s kisses, 
flew over the mirror and shaded her view. 
Enraged with the insect for hiding her graces, 
She brushed him—he fell, alas! never to rise— 
“Ah! such,” said the girl, “is the pride of our faces, 
For which the soul’s innocence too often dies.” 


ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 53 


While she stole through the garden, where heart’s-case 
was growing, 
She culled some, and kissed off its night-fallen dew , 
And a rose farther on looked so tempting and glowing, 
That, spite of her haste, she must gather it too. 
But, while o’er the roses too carelessly leaning, 
Her zone flew in two, and the heart’s-ease was lost: 
“Ah! this means,” said the girl (and she sighed at ‘ts 
meaning), 
“That love is scarce worth the repose it will cost!” 


ad 


et ee 


I SAW FROM THE BEACH. 


I saw from the beach, when the morning was shining, 
A bark o’er the waters move gloriously on: 

[ came when the sun o’er that beach was declining— 
The bark was still there, but the waters were gone. 


And such is the fate of our life’s early promise, 
So passing the spring-tide of joy we have known; 
Each wave, that we danced on at morning, ebbs from us, 
And leaves us, at eve, on the bleak shore alone. 


Ne’er tell me of glories serenely adorning 

The close of our day, the calm eve of our night— 
- Give me back, give me back the wild freshness of Morning 
Her clouds and her tears are worth Evening’s best light 


Oh, who would not welcome that moment’s returning, 
When passion first waked a new life through his frame, 

And his soul, like the wood that grows precious in burning, 
Gave out all its sweets to love’s exquisite flame |! 


&4 ERIN-GO BRAGH SONGSTER. 


I SAW THY FORM IN YOUTHFUL PRIME, 


I saw thy form in youthful prime, 
Nor thought that pale decay 
Would steal before the steps of time, 
And waste its bloom away, Mary! 
Yet still thy features wore that light 
Which fleets not with the breath ; 
And life ne’er looked more truly bright 
Than in thy smile of death, Mary! 


As streams that run o’er golden mines, 
Yet humbly, calmly glide, 

Nor seem to know the wealth that shines 
Within their gentle tide! Mary, 

So, veiled beneath the simplest guise, 
Thy radiant genius shone, 

And that which charmed all other eyes 
Seemed worthless in thine own, Mary! 





THE BARGAIN. 


THompson.—Ned, I heard that you were out late last 
evening. 3 

NrEp.—Yes, Thompson; Patsey Bolivar, Baldy Sowers 
and I were together. 

‘T’Hompson.— Where did you spend your evening? 

NeD.—Down in a lager-bier saloon. We had a gay 
time. 

THompson.—I suppose you imbibed freely ? 

NEep.—What’s dat? 

THompson.—You regaled yourselves. 

Nep.—I don’t know; but we all made a bargain dat 
when we went home we must do de fust thing our wives 
told us to do; and de fust one dat refused was to pay “« 
drinks in de mornin’. 

THompson.—Well, how did you sueceed ? 


ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. ous 


Nrep.—We met dis mornin’, and Patsy Bolivar said 
when he went home he come near stumblin’ over a pot of 
patter dat was settin’ by the stove to raise ; his wife said, 
“Dar, you fool! put your foot in dat batter!” and so he 
did. 

THompson.—Then he got clear. 

Nep.—Yes; den Baldy Sowers said when he went home 
his wife had gone to bed, so he got in de window; feelin 
about in de dark for a match, he run against de stove, 
_ when his wife bawled out, “Do knock over de stove ;” 
and, would you believe it, he kicked it over right away. 

THompson.—He got clear. 

NEp.—Yes, Thompson, but I— 

‘THomrpson.—W hat, you didn’t lose, did you? 

NEp.—Well, you see, Thompson, when I got home I 
thought I’d go to bed widout makin’ any noise, but I 
guess dar was more stairs than ushal, or p’raps dar was a 
hole in de carpet, and— 

THompson.—You put your foot in it? 

Nrp.—Yes; I tried to take two stairs at one step, or 
two steps at one stair, I don’t ’zactly know which—p’raps 
both—and I stumbled; and what you tink my wife said? 

THompson.—Well, I suppose she requested you to be 
careful and not hurt yourelf. 

Nrep.—Yes; she hollowed out “ Dar you are agin’, just 
tumble down and break your neck, do!” 

TuHompson.—That was most unreasonable on her part 
It must have placed you in a most embarrassing position 
Did you pay attention to her request ? 

Nep.—No, sirree; I paid de drink. 





IT IS NOT THE TEAR AT THIS MOMENT SHED 
Tr is not the tear at this moment shed, 
When the cold turf has just been laid o’er him, 
That can tell how beloved was the friend that’s fled 
Or how deep in our hearts we deplore bim. 


56 ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 


"Tis the tear, through many a long day wept, 
Tis life’s whole path o’ershaded , 

"Lis the one remembrance, fondly kept, 
When all lighter griefs have faded. 


Thus his memory, like some holy light,” 
Kept alive in our hearts, will improve them ; 
For worth shall look fairer and truth more bright, 
When we think how he lived but to love them. 
And, as fresher flowers the sod perfume 
Where buried saints are lying, 
So our hearts shall borrow a sweetening bloom 
From the image he left there in dying! 


VYVE A SECRET TO TELL THEE. 


T’vz a secret to tell thee, but hush! not here— 
Oh, rot where the world its vigil keeps: 
I'll seek to whisper it in thine ear, | 
Ou some shore where the Spirit of Silence sleeps; 
Where Summer's wave unmurm’ring dies, 
Nor Fay can hear the fountain’s gush ; 
Where, if but a note her night-bird sighs, 
The Rose saith, chidingly, “‘ Hush, sweet hush!* 


There, amid the deep silence of that hour, 
When stars can be heard in ocean dip, 
Thvself shall, under some rosy bower, 
sit mute, with thy finger on thy lip: 
Li’ e him, the boy who, born among 
Che flowers that on the Nile-stream blush, 
S 3 ever thus—his only song, 
Co earth and heaven, “Hush, all, hush !” 


ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 
IRISH MARY. 


JOHN BANIM, 
Air—“ Lesbia hath a Beaming Eye.” 


Far away from Erin’s strand, 
And valleys wide and sounding waters, 
Still she is, in every land, 
One of Erin’s real daughters : 
Oh! to meet her here is like 
A dream of home and natal mountains, 
On our hearts their verses strike— 
We hear the gushing of their fountains! 
Yes! our Irish Mary dear ! 
Our own, our real Irish Mary ! 
A flower of home, fresh blooming come, 
Art thou to us our Irish Mary! 


Round about us here we see 
Bright eyes like hers, and sunny faces 
Charming all !—if all were free 
___ Of foreign airs, of borrowed graces. 
Mary’s eye it flashes truth ! 
And Mary’s spirit, Mary’s nature, 
“Trish Lady,” fresh in youth, 
Have beam’d o’er every look and feature! 
Yes! our Irish Mary dear! 
When La Tournure doth make us weary, 
We have you, to turn unto, 
For native grace, our Irish Mary. 


Sighs of home !—her Erin’s songs 
O’er all their songs we love to listen; 
Tears of home !—her Erin’s wrongs 
Subdue our kindred eyes to glisten ! 
Ob! should woe to gloom consign 
The clear fireside of love and hunor, 
3 


ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 


You will see a holier sign 

Of Irish Mary bright upon her ! 
Yes! our Irish Mary dear 

Will light that home, though e’er so dreary, 
Shining still o’er clouds of ill, 

Sweet star of life, our Irish Mary! 





MARY OF ARGYLE. 


I gave heard the mavis singing 
His love-song to the morn: 

I have seen the dew-drops clinging 
To the rose just newly born ; 

_ But a sweeter sung has cheered me, 

At the evening’s gentle close ; 

I have seen an eye still brighter 
Than the dew-drops on the rose— 

'Twas thy voice, my gentle Mary, 
And thine artless, winning smile, 

That made this world an Eden, 
Bonny Mary of Argyle |! 


Tho’ thy voice may lose its sweetness, 
And thine eye its brightness, too ; 

Tho’ thy step may lose its fleetness 
And thy hair its sunny hue ; 

Still to me shalt thou be dearer 
Than all the world can own— 

I have loved thee for thy beauty, 
But not for that alone : 

I have watched thy heart, dear Mary, 

' And its goodness was the wile 

Thou has made thee mine forever, 
Bonny Mary of Argyle ! 


ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 59 


YM DREAMING OF THEE, NORAH. 


I’m dreamimg of thee, Norah, I’m dreaming still cf thee, 
Thy spirit haunts me ever, like fairy melody ; : 
When in loneliness I wander, or in halls of mirth and 
glee, 
Ak! my heart to thine is turning, I’m dreaming stil] cf 
thee. | 
I’m dreaming of thee, Norah, 
I’m dreaming still of thee. 


I’m dreaming of thee, dearest, I dream of thee alone, 
I think how well I love thee, and feel we shall be one; 
For I know there is no other e’er can be so dear to me, 
Ah! whene’er I dream of angels, I’m dreaming still of 
thee. 
I’m dreaming of thee, Norah, 
I’m dreaming still of thee. 





JOYS THAT PASS AWAY. 


Joys that pass away like this, 
Alas! are purchased dear, 
If every beam of bliss 
Is followed by a tear. 
Fare thee well—oh, fare thee well! 
Soon, too soon, thou hast broke the spell. 
Oh, I ne’er can love again 
The girl, whose faithless art 
Could break so dear a chain, 
And with it break my heart! 


Once, when truth was in those eyes, 
How beautiful they shone ! 

But now that lustre flies, 
For truth, alas! is gone. 

Fare thee well—oh, fare thee well! 
How I’ve loved my hate shall tell. 


o@ ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSIER. 


Oh, how lorn, how lost would prove 
Thy wretched victim’s fate, 
If, when deceived in love, 
He could not fly to hate. 


g 


KATTY, AVOURNEEN. 


I'w28 a cowld winters night and the tempest was 
snarlin’, 
The snow, like a sheet, coverd cabin and sty, 
When Barney flew over the hills to his darlin’, 
And tapp’d at the window where Katty did lie. 
“ Arrah | jewel,” says he, ‘ are you sleeping or waking, 
It’s a bitter cowld night, and my coat it is thin, 
The storm it ig brewin’, the frost it is bakin’, 
Oh! Katty, avourneen, you must let me in.” 


“Ah! then, Barney,” says Kate, and she spoke through tke 
window, 

“How could you be taking us out of our beds, 

To come at this time, it’s a shame and a sin, too, 
It’s whiskey, not love, has got into your head. 

If your heart it was true, of my fame you'd be tindher, 
Considher the time, an’ there’s nobody in, 

What has a poor girl but her name to defend her ? 
No, Barney, avourneen, I won’t let you in!” 


“ A cuishla,” says he, “it’s my heart is a fountain, 
That weeps for the wrong I might lay at your door; 
Your name is more white than the snow on the mountain, 
And Barney ‘ld die to presarve it as pure. 
I'll go to my home, tho’ the winter winds face me, 
V'll whistle them off, for ’m happy within, 
And the words of my Katty will comfort and bless me, 
‘No, Barney, avourneen, I won’t let you in!’” 


ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. RGR 
KITTY TYRRELL. 


- You’RE looking as fresh as the morn, daiNng, 
You're looking as bright as the day; 

But while on your charms I’m dilating, 
You're stealing my poor heart away. 

But keep it and welcome, mavourneen, 
Its loss I’m not going to mourn; 

Yet one heart’s enough for a body, 
So pray give me yours in return. 

Mavourneen, mavourneen, 

O! pray give me yours in retum. 


I’ve built me a neat little cot, darling, 
I’ve pigs and potatoes in store; 
I’ve twenty good pounds in the bank, love, 
And may be, a pound or two more, 
It’s all very well to have riches, 
But I’m such a covetous elf, 
I can’t help still sighing for something, 
And, darling, that something’s yourself. 
Mavourneen, mavourneen, 
And that something, you know, is yourself. 


Yow’re smiling, and that’s a good sign, darling, 
Say “yes,” and you'll never repent, 
Or, if you would rather be silent, 
Your silence I'l] take for consent. 
That good natured dimple’s a tell-tale, 
Now all that I have is your own; 
This week you may be Kitty Tyrrell, 
Next week you'll be Mistress Malone. 
Mavourneen, mavourneen, 
You'll be my own Mistress Malone. 


e2 ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 


KATHLEEN MAVOURNEEN. “ 


KATHLEEN, mavourneen ! the gray dawn is breaking, 
The hotn of the hunter is heard on the hill, 
The lark from her light wing the bright dew is skaking 
Kathleen, mavourneen, what, slumb’ring still? 
Ah! hast thou forgotten how soon we must sever ? 
Oh! hast thou forgotten this day we must part? 
Tt may be for years, and it may be forever, 
Oh! why art thou silent, thou voice of my heart? 
It may be for years and it may be forever, 
Then why art thou silent, Kathleen, mavourneen ? 


Kathleen, mavourneen ! awake from thy slumbers, 
The blue mountains glow in the sun’s golden light, 
Ah! where is the spell that once hung on my numbers 

Arise, in thy beauty, thou star of my night, 
Mavourneen, mivourneen, my sad tears are falling, 
To think that from Erin and thee I must part, 
It may be for years and it may be forever, 
Then why art thou silent, thou voice of my heart? 
It may be for years, and it may be forever, 
Then why art thou silent, Kathleen, mavourneen ? 


A DARK SCENE. 


A DARKEY, of a dark night, in a dark cellar, with a dara 
lantern, hunting after a dark cat. 





CONUNDRUM. 


Wuy do girls kiss each other and men not? 
Because the girls have nothing better to kiss, and the 
men have 


BRIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 63 


KATE O’BRIEN. 


Prruaps you don’t know there’s a sweet little stream, 
Far down in a dell, where a poet might dream; 

A nate little cabin stands close to the tide, 

And, och, such a jewel is shining inside. 

I don’t mean a jewel that money can buy, 

But a warm-hearted creature with love in her eye} 
You'll not find a beauty so beauteous as she, 

From Ballinacrasy to Donaghadee. 


Her name is O’Brien, they christened her Kate ; 
There’s many e beauty has shared the same fate 3 
But never a one, to my thinking, I’ve seen 

So lovely, so trim, as my bright-eyed colleen : 

Her face is a picture for limners to paint ; 

Her figure might serve for a heart winning saint ; 
Qh, you'll not find a beauty so beauteous as she, 
From Ballinacrasy to Donaghadee. 


Her hair, it is smooth as the raven’s own back, 

But the bonniest bird has not tresses so black ; 

And they curl round a neck that might rival the snow, 
With the grace of a swan on the waters below. 

Her mouth,—oh, what music I’ve heard from that same J 
Her breath, it might put the sweet roses to shame ; 
Oh, you'll not find a beauty so beauteous as she, 
From Ballinacrasy to Donaghadee. 





KATE O’SHANE. 


Tue cold winds of Autumn wail mournfully here, 
The leaves round me falling are faded and sere ; 
But chill though the breeze be, and threat’/ning the storm, 
My heart, full of fondness, beats kindly and warm. 
Oh! Dennis, dear, come back to me, 
I count the hours away from thee, 
Return and never part again 
From thine own darling—Kate O’Shane. 


64 ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 


"T'was here we last parted, ’twas here we first met, 

And ne’er has he caused me one tear of regret ; 

The seasons may alter, their change I defy, 

My heart’s one glad summer when Dennis is by. 
Oh! Dennis, dear, ete. 


GRACE AFTER DINNER. — 


Swirt was invited by arich miser to dinner. Requested 
by the host to return thanks at the removal of the cloth, 
uttered the following grace : 


Thanks for this miracle ! this is no less 

Than to eat manna in the wilderness. 

Where raging hunger reign’d we’ve found relief, 
And seen that wondrous thing, a piece of beef. 
Here chimneys smoke that never smoked before, 
And we've all eat, where we shall eat no more. 


KATIE O’RYAN. 


‘On the banks of the Shannon, in darling old Ireland, 
Dwells a fair damsel, she’s soon to be mine, 

She’s a darling young creature and lovely in feature, 
I ne’er can forget her! dear Katie O’Ryan. 

Shie’s as fair as the dawn of the morning while beaming, 
Her eyes soft, her lips like the rmby red wine, 

Oh! she’s the dear little shamrock, I’m constantly dreaming 
Of my own deiiing Katie, dear Katie O’Ryan. 


CHORUS. : 


She’s the 2ear little shamrock, I’m constantly dreamin 
Of my own darling Katie, dear Katie O’Ryan. 


ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 65 


i now have rov’d far to a land call’d America, 
4 home, Katie dear, for the honest and true, 
~ My heart saddens tho’ when I think that I am 
So far away from old Ireland, and Katie, from you. 
_ The winter is on, but I heed not its cold, dear, 
The spring will bring flow’rs and joy to my heart, 
Oh! for it’s nearing the time when I’ll bring my love out nere, 
Then in this free country our new lives we'll start. 
She’s the dear, eto. 


“The fields here are green as they are in old Ireland, 
And all have their freedom to do what is right ; 
Ah! Katie, I’ve seen pretty girls by the thousand, 
And I’m thinking of none but you, darling, to-night, 
Wren the bright summer comes, I will hasten, sure, back 
again, 
Take your soft tender hands gently in mine. Oh! 
i'll never more leave you, but thro’ life we'll wander ; 
Till death it will part me and Katie O’Ryan. 
She’s the dear, ete 





LAMENT OF THE IRISH EMIGRANT 


I’M sitting on the stile, Mary, 
Where we sat side by side, 
On a bright May morning long ago, 
When first you were my bride; 
The corn was springing fresh and green, 
And the lark sang loud and high, 
And the red was on thy lip, Mary, 
And the love light in your eye. 


The place is little changed, Mary, 
The day as bright as then; 

The lark’s loud song is in my ear, 
And the corn is green again ! 


ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 


But I miss the soft clasp of your hand 
And your breath warm on my cheek, 

And I still keep lisning for the words 
You never more may speak. 


"Tis but a step down yonder lane, 
And the little church stands near— 
The church where we were wed, Mary, 
I see the spire from here ; 

But the graveyard lies between, Mary, 
And my step might break your rest, 
For I’ve laid you, darling, down to sleep, 

With your baby on your breast. 


I’m very lonely now, Mary, 
For the poor make no new /rienda, 
But, O ! they love them better far, 
The few our father sends ; 
And you were all I had, Mary, 
My blessing and my pride ; 
There’s nothing left to care for now, 
Since my poor Mary died. 


I’m bidding, you a long farewell, 
My Mary, kind and true, . 
But [ll not forget you, darling, 
In the land I’m going to. 
They say there’s bread and work for all, 
And the sun shine’s always there ; 
But V’ll not forget old Ireland, 
Were it fifty times as fair | 





LESBIA HATH A BEAMING EYE 


Lessra hath a beaming eye, 

But no one knows for whom it beameth, 
Right and left its arrows fly, 

Bué what they aim at no one dreameth, 


ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 67 


Sweeter ’tis to gaze upon 
My Nora’s lid, that seldom rises ; 
Few its looks, but every one, 
Like unexpected light, surprises. 
Oh, my Nora Creina, dear, 
My gentle, bashful Nora Creina, 
Beauty lies in many eyes, 
But love in yours, my Nora Creina ! f 


Lesbia wears a robe of gold, 
But also close the nymph hath laced it, 
‘Not a charm of beauty’s mould 
Presumes to stay where Nature placed it. 
Oh, my Nora’s gown for me, 
That floats as wild as mountain-breezes, 
Leaving every beauty free 
To sink or swell as heaven pleases. 
Yes, my Nora Creina, dear, 
My simple, graceful Nora Creina, 
Nature’s dress is loveliness— ! 
The dress you wear, my Nora Creina ! 


Lesbia hath a wit refined, 
But when its points are gleaming round us, 
Who can tell if they’re designed 
To dazzle merely, or to wound us? 
Pillowed on my Nora’s heart, 
In safe slumber love reposes— 
Bed of peace! whose roughest part 
Is but the crumpling of the roses. 
Oh, my Nora Creina, dear, 
My mild, my artless Nora Creina, 
Wit, though bright, hath no such light 
As warms your eyes, my Nora Creina! 


o6 ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 


‘ LET ERIN REMEMBER THE DAYS OF OLD. 


Ler Erin remember the days of old, 
Ere her faithless sons betrayed her ; 
When Malachi wore the collar of gold 
Which he won from her proud invader ; 
When her kings, with standard of green unfurled, 
Led the Red-Branch Knights to danger— 
Ere the emerald gem of the western world 
Was set in the crown of a stranger. 


On Lough Neagh’s bank, as the fisherman strays, 
When the clear, cold eve’s declining, 

He sees the round towers of other days 
In the wave beneath him shining: 

Thus shall meniory often, in dreams sublime, 
Catch a glimpse of the days that are over; 

Thus, sighing, look through the waves of Time 
For the long-faded glories they cover. 





LOVE AND THE NOVIOE. 


‘SHERE we dwell, in holiest bowers, 
Where angels of light o’er our orisons bend ; 
Where sighs of devotion and breathings of flowers 
To heaven in mingled odor ascend. 
Do not disturb our calm, O Love! 
So like is thy form to the cherubs above, 
It well might deceive such hearts as ours.” 


Love stood near the Novice and listened 
And Love is no novice in taking a hint; 
His laughing blue eyes soon with piety glistened, 
His rosy wing turned to heaven’s own tint. 
“Who would have thought,” the urchin cries, 
“That love could so well, so gravely disguise 
His wandering wings and wounding eyes? 


ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 69 


“Love now warms thee, waking and sleeping— 
Young Novice, to him all thy orisons rise ; 
He tinges the Leavenly fount with his weeping, 
_ He brightens the censer’s flamé with his sighs. 
Love is the saint enshrined in thy breast, 
And angels themselves would admit such a guest 
If he came to them clothed in Piety’s vest.” 





LOVE THEE, DEAREST, LOVE THEB! 


Love thee, dearest, love thee? 
Yes, by yonder star I swear, 

Which, through tears, above, 
Shines so sadly fair, 

Though too oft dim with tears like him, 
Like him my truth will shine: 

And love thee, dearest, love thee? 
Yes—till death I’m thine! 


Leave thee, dearest, leave thee ? 
No—that star is not more true; 

When my vows deceive thee, 
He will wander too. 

A cloud of night may veil his light, 

And death shall darken mine; 

But leave thee, dearest, leave thee? 
No—till death I’m thine! 





LIGHT SOUNDS THE HARP. 


Licut sounds the Harp, when the combat is over, 
When heroes are resting, and Joy is in bloom; 
When laurels hang loose from the brow of the loves, 
And Cupid makes wings of the warrior’s plume. 


70 ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 


But when the foe returns, 
Again the hero burns— 
High flames the sword in his hand once more; 
The clang of mingling arms 
Is then the sound that charms, 
And brazen notes of war, by thousand trumpets sung | 
Oh, then comes the Harp, when the combat is over, 
When heroes are resting, and Joy is in bloom; 
When laurels hang loose from the brow of the lover, 
And Cupid makes wings of the warrior’s plume. 


Light went the Harp, when the War-God, reclining, 
Lay lulled on the white arm of Beauty to rest ; 
When round his rich armor the myrtle hung twining, 
And flights of young doves made his helmet their rest 
But when the battle came, 
he hero’s eye breathed flame ; 
Soon from his neck the white arm was flung; 
While, to his wakening ear, 
No other sounds were dear, } 
But the brazen notes of war, by thousand trumpets sung. 
But then came the light Harp, when danger was end 
And Beauty once more lulled the War-God to rest ; 
When tresses of gold with his laurels lay blended, 
And flights of young doves made his helmet their rest, 





LOVE’S LIGHT SUMMER-CLOUD. 


PaIn and sorrow shall vanish before us— 
Youth may wither, but feeling will last : 
All the shadow that e’er shall fall o’er us, 
Love’s light summer-cloud sweetly snes 
Oh, if to love thee more, each hour I number o'er; 
If this a passion be wortny of thee, 
Then be happy, for thus I adore thee— 
Charms may wither, but feeling will last. 
All the shadow that e’er shall fall o’er thee, 
Love’s light summer-cloud sweetly shall cast. 


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Rest, dear bosom! no sorrow shall pain thee, 
Sighs of pleasure alone shalt thou steal ; 
Beam, bright eyelid! no weeping shall stain thea, 
Tears of rapture alone thou shalt feel, 
Oh, if there be a charm in love to banish harm; 
___ If pleasure’s truest spell be to love well, 
Then be happy. for thus I adore thee— 
Charms may wither, but feeling will last, 
AJ] the shadow that e’er shall fall o’er thee, 
Love’s light summer-cloud sweetly shall caet 





SHORT CHARITY SERMON. 


MEAN Swirr once preached a charity sermon in St. 
Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, the length of which disgusted 
many of his auditors; which, coming to his knowledge, 
and it falling to his lot soon after to preach another sermon 
of the like kind in the same place, he took special care to 
avoid falling into the former error. His text was, “He 
that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord, and 
that which he hath given will he pay him again.” The 
Dean, after repeating his text in a more than commonly 
emphatical tone, added, “ Now, my beloved brethren, yuu 
hear the terms of this loan; if you like the security, down 
with your dort.” The quaintness and brevity of the 
sermon prodnced a large contribution. 


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LOVE, MY MARY, DWELLS WITH THER. 


He. — Love, my Mary, dwells with thee, 
On thy cheek his bed I see. 

She. — No, that cheek is pale with care— 
Love can find no roseg there. 





73 ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 


Both.—’Tis not on the bed of rose, 
Love can find the best repose : 
In my heart his home thou’lt seo= 
There he lives, and lives for thee. 


He. — Love, my Mary, ne’er can roam,,. 
While he makes that eye his home, 
She. — No, the eye with sorrow dim, 
Ne’er can be a home for him. 
Both.—Yet ’tis not in beaming eyes, 
Love forever warmest lies; 
In my heart his home thou’lt see— 
There he lives, and lives for thee! 


MY HEART’S IN OLD IRELAND. 


Myx bark on the billow dash’d gloriously on, 
Ana glad were the notes of the sailor boy’s song, 
Yet sad was my bosom and bursting with woe, 
For my heart’s in old Ireland wherever I go. 
Oh, my heart’s in old Ireland wherever I go. 


More dear than the flowers that Italy yields, 
Ave the red-breasted daisies that spangle thy fields, 
The shamrock, the hawthorn, the white blossom’s glow 
For my heart’s in old Ireland wherever I go. 

Oh, my heart’s, ete. 


I'he shores they look lovely, yet cheerless and vain 
Bloom the lilies of France and the olives of Spain ; 
When I think of the fields where the wild daisies grow, 
‘T'hen my heart’s in old Ireland wherever I go. 

Uh, my heart’s, etc. 


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The lilies and roses abandon the plains, 
Though the summer's gone by, still the shamrock remaing 
Like a friend in misfortune it blooms o’er tne snow, 
For my heart’s in old Ireland wherever I go. 
Oh, my heart’s, ete. 
I sigh and I vow, if ever I get home, 
No more from my dear native cottage I’ll roam ; 
The harp shall resound, and the goblet shall flow, 
For my heart’s in old Ireland wherever I go. 
Oh, my heart’s, ets. 


— 


on. Wee eT re 


MOLLY BAWN. 


O Motiy Bawy, why leave me pining 
Or 'onely waiting here for you— 

While the stars above are brightly shining, 
Because they have nothing else to do. 

The flowers late were open keeping, 
To try a rival blush with you, 

But their mother, Nature, kept them sleeping, 
With their rosy faces wasl’d in dew. 


The pretty flowers were made to bloom, dear, 
And the pretty stars were made to shine; 
The pretty girls were made for the boys, deas, 
And may be you were made for mine. 

The wicked watch-dog here is snarling— 
He takes me for a thief, d’ye see? 

for he knows I’d steal you, Molly, darling, 
And then transported I should be. 





MOLLY, ASTHORE. 


As 4 wr by Banna’s banks I strayed, one evening in May, 

The little birds in blithest notes made vocal every spray 

They sung their little notes of love, they sung them o'er 
and o’er— 

Ab! gramachree, my colleen oge my Molly, asthore 


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‘The daisy pied and all the sweets the dawn of Natare 
yields, 

The primrose pale, the violet b!ue, lay scattered o’er the 
fields 

Buch fragrance in the bosom lies of her whom I adore, 

Ab! gramachree, my colleen oge, my Molly, asthore. 


T laic me down upon a bank, bewailing my sad fate, 

That doomed me thus a slave to love, and cruel Molly’s 
vate 5 

How can she break the honest heart that wears her in its 
core 

Ah! gramachree, my colleen oge, my Molly, asthore. 


You said you loved me, Molly, dear—ah ! why didI believe? 

Yet who could think such tender words were meant but to 
deceive, 

That love was all I asked on earth—nay! heaven could ~ 
give no more. 

Ah! gramachree, my colleen oge, my Molly, asthore. 


Ob! had I all the flocks that graze on yonder yellow hill, 

Or lowed for me the numerous herds that yon green pasture 
fill, 

With her I love I’d gladly share my kine and fleecy store, 

Ah! gramachree, my colleen oge, my Molly, asthore. 


Two turtle-doves ahove my head, sat courting on a bough, 

I envied them their happiness to see them bill and coo, 

Such fondness once for me was shown, but now, alas! ‘tis 
o’er, 

Ah! gramachree, my colleen oge, my Molly, asthore. 


Then fare thee well, my Molly dear, thy loss I eer shall 
mourn 

While liferemainsin Stephen’s heart ’twill beat for thee alone, 

Though thou art false, may heaven on thee its choicest 
blessings pour, 

Ah! gramachree, my colleen oge, my Molly, asthore. 


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MA AILLEEN, ASTHORE. 


WHEN waking with the rosy day, 
From golden dreams of thee, 

I watch the orient sunbeams play 
Along the purple sea ; 

Ob! then I could nut choose but weep, 
As thou were mine no more, 

Ah! gramachree, ma colleen oge, 
Ma Ailleen, asthore! 


When twilight brings the weeping hours, 
That sadden all the grove, 
And angels leave their starry bowers 
To watch o’er faithful love, 
Thy parting words, to me so sweet, 
I breathe them o’er and o’er, 
Ah! gramachree, my colleen oge, 
Ma Ailleen, asthore! 


But soon they’ll iay me in the grave, 
Where broken hearts should be; 
And when, beyond the distant wave, 
Thou dream’st of meeting me, 

My sorrows all will be forgot, 
And all the love I bore, 

Ah! gramachree, ma colleen oge, 
Ma Ailleen, asthore ! 


MY EMMET’S NO MORE. 


Desparr in her wild eve, a daughter of Erin 
Appear’d on the cliffs of the bleak rocky shore; 
Loose in the wind flow’d her dark streaming ringlets 
And heedless she gaz’d on the dread surge’s roar 


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Loud rang her harp in wild tones of despairing ; 

The time pass’d away with the present comparing, 

And in soul-thrilling strains deeper sorrow declaring, 
She sang Erin’s woes and her Emmet no more. 


O, Er‘n, my country, your glory’s departed ; 

For tyrants and traitors have stabbed thy heart’s care, 
Thy daughters have laved in the streams of affliction, 

Thy patriots have fled, or lie stretched in their gore, 
Ruthless rufhans now prowl thro’ thy hamlets forsaken, 
From pale hungry orphans their last morsel have taken; 
The screams of thy females no pity awaken; 

Alas! my poor country, your Emmet’s no more. 


Brave was his spirit, yet mild as the Brahmin, 
His heart bled in anguish the wrongs of the poor; 

To relieve their bard sufferings he brav’d every danger, 
The vengeance of tyrants undauntedly bore. 

E’en before him the proud titled villains in power 

Were seen, though in ermine, in terror to cower; 

But alas! he is gone, he has fallen, a young flower, 
They have murderd my Emmet, my Emmet’s no more 


MEET ME, MISS MOLLY MALONE. 


MEET me, Miss Molly Malone, 
At the grove at the end of the vale; 
But be sure that you don’t come alone, 
Bring a pot of your master’s strong ale; 
With a nice bit of beef and some bread, 
Some pickled or cucumbers green, 
Or a nice little dainty pig’s head, 
Tis the loveliest titbit e’er seen, 
Then meet me, Miss Molly Malone. 


ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 77 


Pastry may do for the gay, one 
Old maids may find comfort in tea ; 
But there’s something about ham and beef, 
. That agrees a deal better with me. 
Remember my cupboard is bare, 
‘Then come, if my dear life you prize, 
I'd have lived the last fortnight on air, 
But you sent me two nice mutton pies, 
Then meet me, Miss Molly Malone. 


THIEVES. 


“Nezp, I suppose you have travelled a great distanos 
during the past seventeen years, as you have been contin- 
ually on the move ?” 

“Yes, I’ve been putty much all ober de world, and at 
rast I’ve come to a halt.” 

“That was a long road to travel.” 

““ Well, it was; and one place I cum to was a little de 
hardest you eber heerd ob.” , 

“Why so?” 

“You see, de people dere was de greatest set ob thieves 
vou eber see. I went to de stable to see ’bout my horse, 
and dere was a fellow trying to steal de poor animal’s 
eyes. I asked him what he was bout, and he said he 
had a blind horse home, and he wanted my horse’s eyes fur 
him I told him he was a big thief, and asked him if dere 
was any more like him ’round dere. 

““* Yes,’ says he, ‘plenty; we're all thieves, and been 
so for forty generations.’ 

“« Well,’ said I, ‘if Old Uncle Gabriel should land here 
to blow his trumpet on resumyection day, he would wake up 
a hard lot.’ 

“*He wouldn’t raise nary one,’ said he, ‘for we'd 
steal his old horn »efore he could give a single toot?” 


ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTEs 


NORAH CREINA. 


Who are you that walks this wes 

So like the Empress Dejanina? 
Is it true what people say, - 

That you're the famous Shilnagiraa % 
Or are you the great Pompey? 

Or Britain’s Queen, bold Tilbureena? 
Or are you Dido, or Doctor Magee? 

O no, says she, I’m Norah Creina. 
I’m the girl that makes the stir, 

From Cork along to Skibbereena ; 
All the day we drink strong tea, 

And whiskey too, says Norah Creins 


Who are you that ax my name? 

Othello, Wat Tyler, or Julius Cesar f 
Or are you Venus, of bright fame? 

Or that old fugy Nebuchadnezzar ? 
Or maybe you are Plute stout ; 

Or jolly old Bacchus, drunk and hearty ; 
There my lass, your eye is out, 

For I’m Napolect. Bonaparte. 


Won't you dine with me to-day? 

V’ll send for you a horse and crupper ; 
And lest you should refuse to stay, 

T’ll tell you who we'll have to supper: 
Macgillicuddy of the Reeks, 

And Donaghue Glen, the Duke of Glo’stez, 
Oliver Cromwell, and Brian O’Lynn, | 

Cadwallader Waddy, and Leslie Foster. 





NAY, TELL ME NOT. 


Naz, tell me not, dear, that the goblet drowns 
One charm of feeling, one fond regret ° 
Believe me, a few of thy angry frowns 
Are all I’ve sunk in its bright wave yet. 


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ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 78 


Ne’er hath a beam been lost in the stream 

That ever was shed from thy form or soul ; 
The spell of those eyes, the balm of thy sighs, 

Still float on the surface, and hallow my bowl. 
Then fancy not, dearest, that wine can steal 

One blissful dream of the heart from me; 


Like founts that awaken the pilgrim’s zeal, 


The bow! but brightens my love for thee. 


They tell us that Love in his fairy bower 
Had two blush-roses, of birth divine ; 

He sprinkled the one with a rainbow’s shower, 
But bathed the other with mantling wine. 

Soon did the buds that drank of the floods 
Distilled by the rainbow decline and fade; 

While those which the tide of ruby had dyed | 
All blushed into beauty, like thee, sweet maid! 

Then fancy not, dearest, that wine can steal 
One blissful dream of the heart from me; 

Like founts that awaken the pilgrim’s zeal, 
The bowl but brightens my love for thee 





NO, NOT MORE WELCOME. 


No, not more welcome the fairy numbers 
Of music fall on the sleeper’s ear, 

When, half awaking from fearful slumbers, 
He thinks the full choir of heaven is near— 

Than came that voice, when, all forsaken, 
This heart long had sleeping lain, 

Nor thought its cold pulse would ever waken 
To such benign, blessed sounds again. 


Sweet voice of comfort! ’twas like the stealing 

Of summer wind through some wreathed shell 
Each secret winding, each inmost felling 

Of all mv soul echoed to its spell !— 


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"T'was whispered balm—twas sunshine spoken f— 
I'd live years of grief and pain 

To have my long sleep of sorrow broken 
By such benign, blessed sounds again. 





NORAH, THE PRIDE OF KILDARE. 


As beauteous as Flora is charming young Norah, 
I'he joy of my heart and the pride of Kildare, 
I ne’er will deceive her, for sadly ’twould grieve her, 
To find that I sighed for another less fair. 

CHORUS. 


Her heart with truth teeming, her eye with smiles beaming, 
What mortal could injure a blossom so fair, 
Oh, Norah, dear Norah, the pride of Kildare. 


Where’er I may be, love, I’ll ne’er forget thee, love, 
Though beauties may smile and try to ensnare, 

Yet nothing shall ever my heart from thine sever, 
Dear Norah, sweet Norah, the Pride of Kildare. 


MOLLIE DARLING. 
A BEAUTIFUL SONG RY WILL 8. HAYS. 
Won’r you tell me, Mollie darling, 
That you love none else but me? 
For, I love you, Mollie darling, 
You are all the world to me, 
Ok ! tell me, darling, that you love me, 
Put your little hand in mine, 
Take my heart, sweet Mollie darling, 
Say that you will give me thine? 
CHORUS. 
Mollie, fairest, sweetest, dearest, 
Look up, darling, tell me this: 
Do you love me, Mollie darling 1 
Let your answer be a kiss. 


ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 


Stars are smiling, Mollie darling, 
Through the mystic vail of night ; 
They seem laughing, Mollie darling, 
While fair Luna hides her light ; 
Oh ! no one listens but the flowers, 
While they hang their heads in shame, 
They are modest, Mollie darling, 
When they hear me call your name. 


Mollie, fairest, ete. 


I wust leave you, Mollie darling, 
Though the parting gives me pain; 
When the stars shine, Mollie darling, 
I will meet you here again. 
Oh! good-night, Mollie, gcod-by, loved one, 
Happy may you ever be! 
When you're dreaming, Mollie darling, 
Don’t forget to dream of me. 
Mollie, fairest, exe 


COMIC VERSION OF MOLLIE DARLING. 


WueEn I met you Mollie darling, 
I believe t’was after tea, 
You had on your “ Dolly Varden,” 
And you completely dazzled me. 
When I asked you if you loved me, 
You gave my little hand a squoze: 
Take my greenbacks, Mollie darling, 
But don’t turn up at me your nose. 


CHORUS. 
Mollie dearest, fairest, sweetest, 
Look, darling, tell me that: 


Won’t you love me, Mollie darling? 
Don’t despise me ’cause I’m fat. 


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When we're married, Mollie Darling, 
And you are my loving spouse, 
We'll have luts of Dolly Vardens, 
Playing round about ‘the house. 
When ’tis evening, Mollie darling, 
You'll put them in their little bed, 
And if they should annoy you, Mollie, 
Gently put on them a head. 
Mollie, fairest, ete. 


NORAH McSHANE. 


VE left Ballymornach a long way beliind me, 
To better my fortune I’ve crossed the big sea; 
But I’m sadly alone, not a creature to mind me, 
And faith I’m as wretched as wretched can be; * 
I think of the buttermilk, fresh as the daisy, 
The beautiful hills and the emerald plain, 
And, ah! don’t I oftentimes think myself crazy, 
About that black- eyed rogue, sweet Norah McShane, 


I sigh for tke turf-pile so cheerfully burning, 
When barefoot I trudged it from toiling afar, 
When [I toss’ in the light the thirteen I’d been earning, 
And whistled the anthem of “Erin go bragh.” 
In truth, I believe that I’m half broken-hearted, 
To my country and Jove I must get back again, 
or I’ve never been happy at all since I parted 
From sweet Ballymornach and Norah McShane. 


Ob! there’s something so sweet in the cot I was born in, 
Though the walls are but mud and the roof is bat thatck 
Tow familiar the grunt of the pigs in the mornin,’ 
What music in lifting the rusty old latch. 
"Tis true 1d no money, but then I’d no sorrow, 
My pockets were light, but my head had no pain ; 
And if I but live till the sun shine to-morrow, 
Vl be off to ould Ireland and Norah McShane. 


ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 
NORA O’NEAL. 


Ox! I’m lonely to-night love, withou ¢oa, 
And I sigh for one glance of your ¢ ye; 

For, sure there’s a charm, love, about vou, 
Whenever I know you are nigh. 

Like the beam of the star when ’tis smiling, 
Is the glance which your eye can’t con eal, 

And your voice is so sweet and beguiling 
That I love you, sweet Nora O’Neal. 


CHORUS. 


Oh! don’t think that ever I’ll dount you, 
My love I will never conceal, 

Oh! I’m lonely to-night love, without you, 
My darling, sweet Nora O’Neal ! 


Oh! the nightingale sings in the wild-wood, 
As if every note that he knew 
Was learned from your sweet voice in childhood, 
To remind me, sweet Nora, of you. 
But I think, love, so often about you, 
And you don’t know how happy I feel, 
But I’m lonely to-night, love, without you, 
My darling, sweet Nora O’Neal ! 
Oh! don’t think, ete 


Oh! why should I weep tears of sorrow 
Oh! why let hope lose its place? 
Won't I meet you, my darling, to-morrow, 
And smile on your beautiful face ? 
Will you meet me? Oh! say you will meet me 
With a kiss at the foot of the lane, 
And Ill promise whenever you greet me 
That Il] never be lonely again. 
Oh! don’t thunk, ete 


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ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 


NOREEN. 
G. LINLEY. 


NoREEN, darling! don’t look so shy= 
It kills me, that glance of your eye; 
Oh, go where I will, 
It follows me still, 
Beaming bright, like a star in the sky. 
While pressing your hand yesterday, 
As idly we saunter’d along, 
Each word that I wanted to say 
Expired at the point of my tongue— 
For, as in a book, 
I read by your look, 
That you seem well to know what I meaa. 
Yes, I love you, my darling Noreen ! 


Noreen! if to love you be wrong, 
The blame to my heart doth belong. 
For morn, noon, and night, 
You're all its delight, 
And your name the sweet theme of my song. 
Then, darling, no longer delay, © 
Your glances my heart have undone, 
That smile says what I wish’d to say, 
To-morrow we two shall be one. 
The priest and a ring 
Will best settle the thing, 
And explain what I really do mean. 
Yes, I love you my darling Noreen! 





THE MAY-DEW. 
SAMUEL LOVER. 
Come with me, love, I’m seeking 
A spell in the young year’s flowers; 
The magical May-dew is weeping, 
Its charm o’er the summer bow’rs; 


- ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 83 


Tts pearls are more precious than those they find 
In jewell’d India’s sea; 

For the dew-drops, love, might serre to bind 
Thy keart, forever, to me! 





OH, BANQUET NOT. 


O#, banquet not in those shining bowers 
Where Youth resorts, but come to me: 

For mine’s a garden of faded flowers, 

_ More fit for sorrow, for age, and thee. 

And there we shall have our feasts of tears, 
And many a cup in silence pour; 

Our guests, the shades of former years— 
Our toasts, to lips that bloom no more! 


There, while the myrtle’s withering boughs 
Their lifeless leaves around us shed, 
We'll brim the bowl to broken vows, 
‘lo friends long lost, the changed, the dead, 
Or, while some blighted laurel waves 
Its branches o’er the dreary spot, 
We'll drink to those neglected graves 
Where Valor sleeps, unnamed, forgot! 





OH, BLAME NOT THE BARD! 


Ou, blame not the bard, if he fly to the bowers 
Where pleasure lies, carelessly smiling at fame; 
He was born for much more, and in happier hours 
His soul might have burned with a holier flame: 
The string that now languishes loose o’er the lyre, 
- Might have bent a proud bow to the warrior’s dart; 
And the lip, which now breathes but the song of desirg 
Might have poured the full tide of a patriot’s heart. 


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But alas for his country !—her pride has gone by, 
And that spirit is broken, which never would bend ; 
O’er the ruin her children in secret must sigh, 
For ’tis treason to love her, and death to defend. 
Unprized are her sons, till they’ve learned to betray ; 
Undistinguished they live, if they shame not their sires; 
And the torch that would light them through dignity’s way, 
Must be caught from the pile where their country expires 


Then blame not the bard, if in pleasure’s soft dream 
He should try to forget what he never can heal : 
Oh, give but a hope—let a vista but gleam | 
Through the gloom of his country, and mark how ,he’li 
feel ! 
Every passion it nursed, every bliss it adored, 
That instant his heart at her shrine would lay down ; 
While the myrtle, now idly entwined with his crown, 
Like the wreath of Harmodius, should cover his sword. 


But though glory be gone, and though hope fade away, 
Thy name, loved Erin, shall live in his songs ; 
Not even in the hour when his heart is most gay 
Will he lose the remembrance of thee and thy wrongs 
The stranger shall hear thy lament on his plains ; 
The sigh of thy harp shall be sent o’er the deep, 
Till thy masters themselves, as they rivet thy chains, 
Shall pause at the song of their captive, and weep ! 


OH, BREATHE NOT HIS NAME! 


On, breathe not his nam, let it sleep in the shade, 
Where cold and unhonored his relies are laid ; 

Sad, silent, and dark, be the tears that we shed, 

As the night-dew that falls on the grass o’er his head 


But the night-dew that falls, though in silence it weeps, 
Shall brighten with verdure the grave where he sleeps: 
And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls, 
Shall long keep his memory green in our souls. 


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OH, DOUBT ME NOT. 


©, doubt me not !—the season 

Ig o’er when folly made me rove; 
And now the vestal, Reason, 

Shall watch the fire awaked by Love 
Although this heart wes early blown, 

And fairest hands disturbed the tree, 
They only shook some biossoms down— 

Its fruit has all been kept for thee. 
Then doubt me not—the season 

Is o’er when folly made me rove; 
And now the vestal, Reason, 

Shall watch the fire awaked by Love 


And though my lute no longer 

May sing of Passion’s ardent spell, 
Yet trust me, all the stronger 

I feel the bliss I do not tell. 

The bee through many a garden rovea, 
And hums his lay of courtship o’er ; 
But, when he finds the flower he loves, 

He settles there, and huins no more. 
Then doubt me not—the season 

Is o’er when folly kept me free; 
And now the vestal, Reason, 


Shall guard the flame awaked by thee 





OH, HAD WE SOME BRIGHT LITTLE ISLE OF 
OUR OWN! 


Ou, had we some bright little isle of our own, 

In a blue summer ocean far off and alone, 

Where a leaf never dies in the still-blooming bowers, 
And the bee banquets on through a whole year of flowers 
Where the sun loves to pause with so fond a delay, 
That the night only draws a thin veil o’er the day ; 
Where simply to feel that we breathe, that we live, 

Is worth the best joy that life elsewhere can give! 


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There, with souls ever ardent and pure as the clime, 

We should love as they loved in the first golden time , : 
The glow of the sunshine, the balm of the air, 

Would steal to our hearts, and make all summer there, 
With affection as free from decline as the bowers, 

And with hope like the bee, living always on flowers, 
Our lite shouid resemble a long day of light, 

And oui death come on holy and calm as the night. 





OH! THINK NOT MY SPIRITS ARE ALWAYS 
AS LIGHT. 


Ox! think not my spirits are always as light, 
And as free from a pang, as they seem to you now, 
Nor expect that the heart-beaming smile of to-night 
Will return with to-morrow to brighten my brow. 
No—life is a waste of wearisome hours, 
Which seldom the rose of enjovment adorns; 
And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers, 
Is always the first to be touched by the thorns. 
But send round the bewl, and be happy awhile— 
May we never mees worse, in our pilgrimage here, 
Thar the tear that enjwyment may gild with a smile, 
Avg the smile that e.mpassiox. can turn to a tear! 


The thread of our life would be dark, Heaven knows! 

If it were not with frieadship and love intertwined ; 
And I care not how soon {£ may sink to repose, 

When these blessings shall cease to be dear to my mind 
But they who have loved we fondest, the purest, 

Too often have wept o’ex the dream they believed ; 
And the heart that has slun:bered in friendship securest 

Is happy indeed if ’twas never deceived. 
But send round the bowl!: while a relic of truth 

Is in man or in woman, this prayer shall be mine— 
That the sunshine of love may ilumine our youth, 

And the meonlight of friendship console our decline. 


HRIN-GU-BRAGH SONGSTER. 


ONE BUMPER AT PARTING. 


Onz bumper at parting !—though many 

Have circled the board since we met, 
The fullest, the saddest of any 

Remains to be crowned by.us yet. 
The sweetness that pleasure hath in it 

Is always so slow to come forth, 
That seldom, aias! till the minute 

It dies, do we know half its worth. 
But come—may our life’s happy measure 

Be all of such moments made up; 
They’re born ov the bosom of Pleasure— 

They die ’midst the tears of the cup. 


As onward we journey, how pleasant 
To pause and inhabit awhile 
Those few sunny spots, like the present, 
That ’mid the dull wilderness smile ! 
But Time, like a pitiless master. 
Cries “ Ouward !” and spurs the gay nour» 
Ah, never doth Time travel faster, 
Than when his way lies among towers! 
But come—may our life’s happy measure 
Be all of such moments made up ; 
They’re born on the bosom of Pleasure— 
They die ’midst the tears of the cup. 


We saw how the sun looked in sinking, 
The waters beneath him how bright; 
And now let our farewell of drinking 
Resemble that farewell of light: 
You saw how he finished, by darting 
His beam o’er a deep billow’s brim— 
So, fill up, let’s shine at our parting, 
In full, liquid glory, like him! 

And oh, may our life’s happy measute, 
Of moments like this be made up! 
‘Twas born on the bosom of Pleasure— 
It dies ’midst the tears of the cup. 


90 ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 


OH, REMEMBER THE TIME! 


Ox, remember the time in La Mancha’s shades, 
When our moments so blissfully flew ; 

When you called me the flower of Castilian maids, 

And I blushed to be called so by you; 

When I taught you to warble the gay Seguadille, 

And to dance to the light castanet: 

Oh, never, dear youth, let you roam where you will, 
The delight of those moments forget ! 


Thoy tell me you lovers fro n Erin’s green isle, 
Every hour a new passion can feel; 

And that soon, in the light of some lovelier smile, 
You'll forget the poor maid of Castile. 

But they know not liow brave in the battle you are, 
Or they never could think you would rove ; 

For ’tis always the spirit most gallant in war, 
That is fondest and truest in love. 


OH, SOON RETURN! 


Our white sail caught the evening ray, 
The wave beneath us seemed to burn, 

When all my weeping love could say, 
Was—‘ Oh, svon return !” 

Through many a clime our ship was driven, 
O’er many a billow rudely thrown, 

Now chilled beneath a northern heaven, 
Now sunned by summer’s zone. 

Yet still where’er our course we lay, 
When evening bid the west wave burn, 

I thought I heard her faintly say-— 
“Oh, soon return |” 


ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 91 


If ever yet my bosom found 
Its thoughts a moment turned froin thee, 
*I'was then the combat raged around, 
And brave men looked to me. 
But, though ’mid battle’s wild alarm, 
Love’s gentle power might not appear, 
He gave to Glory’s brow the charm 
That made even danger dear. 
And when the vict’ry’s calm came o’er 
The hearts where rage had ceased to burm, 
I heard that farewell voice once more— 
‘Oh, soon return !” 





OH! WHERE’S THE SLAVE. 


Oh! where’s the slave so lowly, 
Condemn’d to chains unholy, 

Who, could he burst his bonds at first, 
Would pine beneath them slowly? 
What soul, whose wrongs degrade it, 
Would wait till time decay’d it, 

When thus its wing at once may spring 
To the throne of Him who made it ? 
Farewell, Erin, farewell all 

Who live to weep our fall ! 


Less dear the laurel growing, 

Alive, untouch’d and blowing, 

Than that, whose braid is plucked to shade 
The brows with victory glowing. 

We tread the land that bore us, 

Her green flag glitters o’er us, 

The friends we’ve tried are by our side 
And the foe we hate before us. 

Farewell, Evin, farewell all 

Who live tu weep our fall ! 


92 ZRIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER 


OH, YES—SO WELL, SO TENDERLY |! 


OH, yes—so well, so tenderly, 
Thou’rt loved, adored by me; 
Fame, fortune, wealth, and liberty, 
Are worthless without thee | 
Though brimmed with blisses pure and rare, 
Life’s cup before me lay, 
Unless thy love were mingled there, 
I’d spurn the draught away. 


Without thy smile, how joylessly 
All Glory’s meeds I see ! 
And even the wreath of Victory 
Must owe its bloom to thee. 
Those worlds for which the conq’ror sighs, 
For me have now no charms; 
My only world those radiant eyes, 
My throne those circling arms! 





CONUNDRUM. 
“Master, I have got a conundrum for you” 
“ Well, sir, what is it?” 
“Why is an old maid like a stale lemon ? 
“T give it up.” 
‘‘ Because neither ain’t worth a squeezin’.” 





RECOLLECTION. 


As I sat at the open window one fine dewy evening, the 
stars shone out, the moon flung out her mild beams o’er 
the rocks that bound my view, the birds had retired to rest, 
the wakeful frogs made music in the neighboring marsh. 
It was as I gazed upon this beautiful scene, as lifted my 
eyes to the Milky-Way, a thought rushed across my brain, 
and I recollected—What? ‘That I owed my washer 
woman a dollar. 


ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 9g 


OH, YES, WHEN THE BLOOM. 


- UH, yes, when the bloom of Love’s boyhood is o’er, 
He'll turn unto Friendship that feels no decay ; 
And though time may take from him the wings he once wore, 
The charms that remain will be bright as before, 
And he'll lose but his young trick of flying away- 


Then let it console thee, if Love should not stay, 

That Friendship our last happy moments shall crown, 
Like the shadows of morning, Love lessens away ; 
While Friendship, like those at the closing of day, 

Will linger and lengthen as life’s sun goes dowa. 


OCH! NORAH DEAR. 


Ocx! Norah dear! I’m waiting here, 
I'm watching still for you, love; 
And, while you sleep, the flow’rets weep, 
All shrined in tears of dew, love. 
The silv’ry moon, its bright rays soon 
Behind the hills will fade, love; 
But better there her beauties bear, 
For thou her beams would shade, love. 
Och! Norah dear! ete 


Och! Norah dear! I’m waiting here, 
The stars look cold and blue, love ; 

Their twinkling rays have come to gaze 
To see how bright are you, love. 

The breeze that brings such balmy things 
From all that’s bright and fair, love, 

It sighs to sip from thy sweet lip 
The perfuine that lies there, leve. 


4 ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 


OFT IN THE STILLY NIGHT. 


Ort in the stilly night, : 
Ere slumber’s chain has bound me, 
Fond memory brings the light 
Of other days around me; 
‘Che smiles, the tears of childhood’s years, 
The words of love then spoken, 
The eyes that shone, now dimmed and gone, 
The cheerful hearts now broken ! 
Thus in the stilly night, ete 


When I remember all 
The friends so linked together, 
I’ve seen around me fall, 
Like leaves in winter weather, 
I feel like one, who treads alone 
Some banquet hall deserted, 
Whose lights are fled, whose garland’s dead, 
And all but me departed. 
Thus in the stilly night, ete 


a 


PASTHEEN FION. 


fkéiNSLATED FROM THE IRISH, BY SAMUEL FERGUSON, M. R. I. Ae 


{fo Hardiman’s ‘‘Irish Minstrelsy,” vol, 1, p. 330, there is a note upom the 
erigunal of Paistheen Fion. The name may be translated either fair youth of 
fair maiden, and the writer supposes it to have a political meaning, and to refer 
to the sor of James 1I. Whatever may have been the intention of the aathor, it 

on the surface, an exquisite love song, and as such I have retained t¢ in 
glass of ballads, rather than in the next.—ED.] 

Ox, my fair Pastheen is my heart’s delight ; 

Her gay heart laughs in her blue eye bright ; 

Like the appl2 blossom her bosom white, 

And her neck like the swan’s on a March morn bright! 
Then, Oro, come with me! come with me! come with mel 
Oro, come with me! brown girl, sweet ! 

And, oh! I would go through snow and sleet 

If you would come with me, my brown girl, sweet 


ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. q 98 


Love of my heart, my fair Pastheen ! 

Her cheeks are as red as the rose’s sheen, 

But my lips have tasted no more, I ween, 

Than the glass I drank to the health of my queen ! 
Then, Oro, come, ete. 


Were I in the town, where’s wirth and glee, 
Or ’twixt two barrels of barley bree, 
With my fair Pastheen upon my knee, 
"I'is I would drink to her pleasantly ! 
Then, Oro, come, eto. 


Nine nights I lay in longing and pain, 
Betwixt two Fees beneath the rain, 
Thinking to see you, love, once again ; 
But whistle and call were all in vain! , 
Then, Oro, come, eto. 


I'll leave my people, both friend and foe ; 

From all the girls in the world I'll go; 

But from you, sweetheart, oh, never! oh, no! 

Till I lie in the coftin stretched, cold and low! 
Then, Oro, come, ete 


PRETTY MAID MILKING HER COW. 


Ir being on a fine summer's morning, 
As birds sweetly tuned on each bough, 
I heard a fair maid sing most charming 
As she sat a milking her cow. 
Her voice was enchanting—melodious, 
Which left me scarce able to go; 
My beart it was soothed in,solace, 
By the pretty maid milking Ler cow. 
With courtesy I did salute her: 
“ Good-morrow, most amiable maid ; 


I am your captive slave for the future.” 
“ Kind sir, do not banter,” she said; 


ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 


“T am not such a precious rare jewel, 
That I should enamor you so ; 

I am but a plain country girl,” 
Said this pretty maid milking her cow. 


“The Indies afford no such jewel, 
So precious and transparent clear, 
Oh! do not refuse to be ny jewel, 
But consent and love me, my dear; 
Take pity ard grant my desire, 
And leave me no longer in woe; 
Oh! love me, or else I'l] expire, 
Sweet Colleen dhas cruthin amoe.” 


“T don’t understand what you mean, gir 
I never was a slave yet to love; 
These emotions I cannot experience, 
So, I pray, these affections remove ; 
To marry, I can assure you, 
That state I will not undergo, 
So, young man, I pray you will excuse me.” 
Said this pretty maid milking her cow. 


“Had I the wealth of great Omar, 
Or all on the African shore ; 

Or had I great Devonshire’s treasure, 
Or had I ten thousand times more, 

Or had I the lamp of Aladdin, 
And had I his genius, also— 

I'd rather live poor on a MOunHAI 
With colleen dhas cruthin amoe.” 


“T beg you, withdraw, and don’t tease me, 
I cannot consent unto thee ; 

I prefer to live single and airy, 
Till more of the world I see 5. 

New cares they would me embarrase— 
Beside, sir, my fortune is low: : 

Until I get rich I'll not marry,” 
Said the colleen dhas cruthin amoe. 


ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. ~ 9? 


“ A young maid is like a ship sailing, 
She dont know how long she may steer, 
For in every blast she is in danger, 
— So consent, and love me, my dear. 
For riches I care not a farthing ; 
Your affections I want, and no more; 
In wedlock I wish to bind you, 


Sweet colleen dhas cruthin amoe! ” 





RICH AND RARE WERE THE GEMS SHE 
WORE. 


Ricu and rare were the gems she wore, 

And a bright gold ring on her wand she bore; 
But oh! her beanty was far beyond 

Her sparkling gem’s or snow-white wand. 


“Lady! dost thou not fear to stray, 

So lone and lovely through this bleak way? 
Are Erin’s sons so good or so cold, 

As not to be tempted by woman or gold?” 


“Sir Knight! I feel not the least alarm, 

No son of Erin will offer me harm— 

For, though they love woman and golden store, 
Sir Knight! they love honor and virtue more,” 


On she went, and her maiden smile 

In eafety lighted her round the green isle; 
And blest forever is she who relied 

Upon Erin’s honor and Erin’s pride. 





REMEMBER THE GLORIES OF BRIAN THE 
BRAVE. 


REMEMBER the glories of Brian the brave, 
Though the days of the hero are o’er; 

Though lost to Mononia, and cold in the grave, 
He returns to Kinkora no more. 


U8 ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 


That star of the field, which so often hath puured 
Its beam on the battle, 1s set; 

But enough of its glory remains on each sword, 
To light us to victory yet. 


Mononia! when Nature embellished the tint 
Of thy fields, and thy mountains so fair, 

Did she ever intend that a tyrant should print 
The footstep of slavery there ? 

No! Freedom, whose smile we shall never resign, 
Go, tell our ‘invaders, the Danes, 

That ’tis sweeter to bleed for an age at thy shrine, 
Than to sleep but a moment in chains! 


Forget not our wounded companions,* who stood 
In the day of distress by our side ; 

While the moss of the valley grew red with their blood, 
‘They stirred not, but conquered and died. 

The sun which now blesses our arms with his light 
Saw them fall upon Ossory’s plain, 

Oh! let him not blush, when he leaves us to-night 
To find that they fell there in vain. 


RORY O’ MORE. 


Youne Rory O’ More courted Kathleen Bawn: 

He was bold as a hawk, and she soft as the dawn; 
He wished in his heart pretty Kathleen to please, 
And he thought the best way to do that was to lease. 


“This alludes to an interesting c:rcumstance related of the Dalgais, the f& 
vorite troops of O’Brien, when they were interrupted, in their return frota the 
battl2 of Clontarf, by Fitzpatrick, Prince of Ossory. The wounded men entreat- 
ed that they might be allowed to fight with the rest. “Let stakes,’ they said, 
‘*be stuck in the ground; and si tfer each of us, tied to ard supported by one of 
these stakes, to be placed ip his rank by. the side of a sound man.’ ‘ Between 
seven and eight bundred wounded men,” adds O’ Halloran, ‘‘ pale, emaciated, and 
supperted in this manner, appeared mixed with the foremost of the troops !’’ Neves 
was such another sight exhibited. 


_ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 93 


“ Now, Rory, be aisy,” sweet Kathleen would cry, 
Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye: 

* With your tricks, I don’t know, in troth, what I’m about, 
Faith, you’ve teazed till I’ve put on my cloak inside out.” 


“Oh, jewel,” says Rory, “ that same is the way 
You’ve thrated my heart for this many a day: 

And ’tis plazed that I am; and why not, to be sure? 
For it’s all for good luck,” says bold Rory O’ More. 


‘Indeed, then,” says Kathleen, “don’t think of the like, 
For I half gave a promise to soothering Mike: , 
The ground that I walk on he loves, I’ll be bound.” 
“Faith,” says Rory, “I’d rather love you than the ground.* 


“Now, Rory, V’ll ery, if you don’t let me go: 

Sure I dream every night that I’m hating you so!” 
“0!” says Rory, “that same I’m delighted to hear, 
For dhrames always go by conthraries, my dear. 


“Oh! jewel, keep dhraming that same till you die, 
And bright morning will give dirty night the black lie ; 
And ’tis plazed that I am; and why not to be sure ? 
Since ’tis all for good luck,” says bold Rory O? More. 


“ Arrah, Kathleen, my darlint, you’ve teazed me enough, 
And I’ve thrash’d for your sake Dinn y Grimes and Jim Duff, 
And I’ve made myself, drinking your health, quite a baste, 
So I think, after that, I may talk to the praste.” 


then Rory, the rogue, stole his arm round her neck, 

So soft and so white, without freckle or speck ; 

And he look’d in her eyes, that were beaming with light, 
And he kiss’d her sweet lips—Don’t you think he was right 


“Now, Rory, leave off, sir—yow'll hug me no more; 
That’s eight times to-day that you’ve kiss’d me before.” 
“Then lLere goes another,” says he, “to make sure, 
Por there’s Juck in odd numbers,” says Rory O’ More. 


‘CO ERIN-GO-BRAGH SUNGSTER 


SHE IS FAR FROM THE LAND. 


Six is far from the land where her young hero sleeps, 
And lovers are round her sighing ; 

But coldly she turns irom their gaze, and weeps, 
For her heart in his grave is lying. 


She sings the wild songs of her dear native plains, 
Every note which he loved awaking ; 

Ah! little they think, who delight in her strains, 
How the heart of the Minstrel is breaking. 


He liad lived for his love, for his country he died, 
They were all that to life had entwined him; 

Nor soon shall the tears of his country be dried, 
Nor long will his love stay behind him. | 


Oh! make her a grave where the sunbeams rest 
When they promise a glorious morrow ; 
They'll shine o’er her sleep, like a smile from the West, 


Fyern her own loved island of sorrow. 





ST. SENANUS AND THE LADY. 


St. Senanus. 
“On, haste and leave this sacred isle, 
Unholy bark, ere morning smile; 
For on thy deck, though dark it be, 
A female form I see ; 
And I have sworn this sainted sod 
Shall ne’er by woman’s feet be trod.” 


The Lady. 


“© Father! send not hence my bark, 
Through wintry winds and billows dark 
I come with humble heart to share 

Thy morn and evening prayer : 
Nor mine the feet, O holy Saint, 
The brightness of thy sod to taint. 


ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 10) 


The lady’s prayer Senanus spurned ; 
The winds blew fresh, the bark returned : 
But legends hint that had the maid 
Till morning’s light delayed, 
And given the saint one rosy smile, 
She ne’er had left his lonely isle. 


SILENT, O MOYLE! BE THE ROAR OF THY 
WATER. 


(To make this story intelligible in a song would require a much greater num: 
her of verses than any one is authorized to inflict upon an audience at once; the 
# ader must therefore be content to learn in 2. note, that Fionnuala, the daughter 
of Lir, was by some supernatural] power transformed into a Swan, and condemned 
to wander for many hundred years over certain lakes and rivers in Ireland, til] 
the coming ot Christianity, when the first sound of the Mass-bell was to be the 
signal of her release. This fanciful fiction was found among some manuscript 
translations from the Irish, which were begun under the direction of that enlight- 
envd friend of Ireland, the late Countess of Moira. ] 


SinENT, O Moyle! be the roar of thy water, 
Break not, ye breezes, your chain of repose, 
While murmuring mournfully. Lir’s lonely daughter 
Tells to the night star her tale of woes. 
When shall the Swan, her death-note singing, 
Sleep with wings in darkness furl’d? 
When shall heav’n, its sweet bell ringing, 
Call ny spirit from this stormy world? 


Sadly, O Moyle! to thy winter wave weeping 
Fate bids me languish long ages away ; 

Yet still in her darkness duth Erin lie sleeping 
Still doth the pure light its dawning delay. 

When will that day-star, mildly springing, 
Warm our isle with peace and love? 

When shall heav’n, its sweet bell ringing, 
Call my spirit to the fields above? 


102 ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 


THE BELLS OF SHANDON. 
REV. FRANCIS MAHONY. 
Wits deep affection and recollection 
I often think of the Shandon bells, 
Whose sounds so wild would, in days of childhood, 
Fling round my cradle their magic spells. 
On this I ponder where’er I wander, 
And thus grow fonder, sweet Cork, of thee! 
With thy bells of Shandon 
That sound so grand on 
The pleasant waters of the river Lee! 


I have heard bells chiming full many a clime in, 
Tolling sublime, in cathedral shrine, 
While at a glib rate, brass tongues would vibrate, 
But all their music spoke naught to thine! 
For memory dwelling on each proud swelling 
Of thy belfry knelling its bold notes free, 
Made the bells of Shandon 
Sound far more grand on 
The pleasant waters of the river Lee! 


I have heard bells tolling “old Adrian’s mole.” in, 
Their thunder rolling from the Vatican : 
With cymbals glorious, swinging uproarious 
In the gorgeous turrets of Notre Dame ; 
But thy sounds were sweeter than the dome of Petes 
Flings o’er the Tiber, pealing solemnly ! 
Oh! the bells of Shandon 
Sound far more grand on 
The pleasant waters of the river Lee! 


There’s a bell in Moscow, while en tower and kicsko, 
In Saint Sophia, the T'urcoman gets, 

And loud in air calls men to prayer 
From the tapering summits of tall minarets. 

Such empty phantom I freely grant them; 


ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 103 


And thus grow fonder, sweet Cork of thee ! 
With thy bells of Shandon 
That sound so grand on 

The pleasant waters of the river Lee! 


THE OLD MAN AT THE ALTAR. | 


An old man knelt at the altar, 
His enemy’s hand to take, 
And at first his weak voice did falter, 
And his feeble limbs did shake ; 
F or his only brave boy, his glory, 
Had been stretch’d at the old man’s feet 
A corpse, all so haggard and gory, 
By the hand which he now must greet. 


And soon the old man stopp’d speaking, 
And rage which had not gone by, 

From under his brows came breaking 

* Up into his enemy’s eye— 

And now his limbs were not shaking. 
But his clinch’d hands his bosom cross’d, 

And he looked a fierce wish to be taking 
Revenge for the boy he lost. 


But the old man ke glanced around him, 
And thought of the place he was in, 
And thought of the promise that bound him, 
And thought that revenge was sin— 
And then, crying tears, like a woman, 
“Your hand!” he cried, “ay, that hand, 
And I do forgive you, foeman, 
For the sake of our bleeding land!” 


* 


104 ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 


SUBLIME WAS THE WARNING WHICH 
LIBERTY SPOKE. 


SUBLIME was the warning which Liberty spoke, 
And grand was the moment when the Spaniards awoke 
Into life and revenge from the cunqueror’s chain ! 
Oh! Liberty ! let not this spirit have rest 
Till it moves like a breeze o’er the waves of the west, 
Give the light of your look to each sorrowing spot, 
Nor, oh! be the Shamrock of Erin forgot, 
While you add to your garland the Olive of Spain ! 


If the fame of our fathers, bequeathed with their rights, 
Give to country its charm and to home its delights; 
If deceit be a wound and suspicion a stain ; 
Then, ye men of Iberia, our cause is the same. 
And, oh! may his tomb want a tear and a name, 
Who would ask for a nobler, a holier death 
Than to turn his last sigh into victory’s breath, 

For the Shamrock of Erin and Olive of Spain ! 


Ye Blakes and O’Donnells, whose fathers resigned 
The green hills of their youth, among strangers to find 
That repose which at home they had sighed for in vain 
Join, join in our hope that the flame which you light, 
May be felt in Erin, as calm and as bright ; 
And forgive even Albion while she draws, 
Like a truant her sword in the long-slighted cause 
Of the Shamrock of Erin and Olive of Spain! 


God prosper the cause, oh! it cannot but thrive 

While the pulse of one patriot heart is alive 
Its devotion to feel, and its rights to maintain : 

Then how sainted by sorrow its martyrs will die! 

The finger of glory shall point where they lie; 

While far from the footsteps of coward or slave, 

The young spirit of Freedom shall shelter their grave, 
Beneath Shamrocks of Erin and Olives of Spain ! 


ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. —— «168 


SAVOURNEEN DEELISH. 


Ax! the moment was sad when my love and I parted— 
Savourneen deelish Eileen oge} ® 

As I kissed off her tears I was nigh broken hearted— 
Savourneen deelish Hileen oge! 


Wan was her cheek which hung on my shoulder— 
_ Damp waa her hand, no marble was colder, 
I felt that again I should never behold her. 
. Savourneen deelish Eileen oge! 


V ‘en the word of command put our men into motion, 
i Savourneen deelish Hileen oge! 

1 buckled on my knapsack to cross the wide ocean, 
Savourneen deelish Eileen oge! 

Brisk were our troops, all roaring like thunder, 

Pleased with the voyage, impatient for plunder, 

My bosom with grief was almost torn asunder. 
Savourneen deelish Eileen oge! 


Long I fought for my country, far, far from my true love 
Savourneen deelish Eileen oge! 

All my pay and my bounty I hoarded for you, love, 
Savourneen deelish Eileen oge! 

Peace was proclaimed—escaped from the slaughter, 

Landed at home, my sweet girl I sought her; 

But sorrow, alas! to the cold grave had brought her. 
Savourneen deelish Hileen oge! 





SWEET KITTY NEIL. 


Au, sweet Kitty Neil, rise up from your wheel, 

Your neat little foot will be weary of spinning ; 
Come, trip down with me to the sycamore tree, 

Half the parish is there and the dance is beginning, 


~ Darling dear Young Ellen. 


96 ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 


The sun has gune down, but the full harvest moon 
Shines sweet]y and cool on the dew-whitened valley ; 

While all the air rings with the soft, loving things 
Each little bird sings in the green shaded valley, 
Each little bird sings in the green shaded valley. 


With a blush and a smile, Kitty rose up, the while 
Her eye in the glass, as she bound her hair, glancing , 
"Tis hard to refuse when a young lover sues, 
So she could not choose but go off to the dancing. 
And now on the green the glad troops are seen, _ 
Each gay-hearted lad with the lass of his choosing, 
And Pat, without fail, led out sweet Kitty Neil, 
Somehow when he asked, she ne’er thought of refusing, 
Somehow when he asked, she ne’er thought of refusing. — 





SHAMUS O'BRIEN. 


Ox! sweet is the smile of the beautiful morn, 
As it peeps through the curtain of night, 
And the voice of the nightingale singing his tune, 
While the stars seem to smile with delight. 
Old nature now lingers in silent repose, 
And the sweet breath of summer is calm, 
While I sit and wonder if Shamus e’er knows 
How sad and unhappy I am! 


CHORUS. 
Oh! Shamus O’Brien, why don’t you come homme, 
You don’t know how happy I'll be; 
T’ve but one darling wish, and that is that you’d come 
And forever be happy with me! 


Y’ll smile when you smile, and I’ll weep wher vou weep, 
I’ll give you a kiss for a kiss, 

And all the fond vows that I’ve made you, I’ll keep— 
What more can I promise than this? 


ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 107 


Does the sea have such bright and such beautiful charms 
That your heart will not leave it for me? 
Oh! why did I let you go out of my arms, 
Like a bird that was caged and is free ! 
Oh! Shamus O’Brien, eta, 


Oh! Shamus O’Brien, I’m loving you yet, 
And my heart is still trusting and kind ; 
It was you who first took it, and can you forget, 
That love for another you'd find? 
No! no! if you break it with sorrow and pain, 
Pll then have a duty to do; 
If you'll bring it to me, I’!] mend it again, 
And trust it, dear Shamus, to you. 
| Ob ! Shamus O’Brien, eto. 





MARY AILEEN. 


Lyixe by the little grave, Mary Aileen, 
One sweet word is all I crave, Mary Aileen | 
Wilt thou hear me in my woe? 
Wilt thou answer soft and low ? 
Canst thou speak a little? no, Mary Aileen ! 
Chorus: Mary Aileen! Mary Aileen ! 
Canst thou speak a little? no, Mary Aileea, 


Midst the flowers now I’m speaking, Mary Aileen, 
Canst thou hear my voice beluw, Mary Aileen? 

Here till morning will I lie— 

Here to-night I fain would die, 

And to thee be ever nigh, Mary Aileen. Chorus, 


Every night upon thy grave, Mary Aileen, 

Sha!l my tears to sweet flowers lave, Mary Aileen ? 

I will whisper—* Art thou mine ” 

Thou wilt answer—" Ever thine !” 

Death but makes our love divine, Mary Aileen | 
Chorus 


= ERIN-G0-BRAGH SONGSTER. 


TAKE BACK THE VIRGIN PAGR 


TAKE back the virgin page, 
White and unwritten still; 
Some hand, more calm and sage, 

The leaf must fill. 
Thoughts come as pure as light, 
Pure as even you require ; 
But oh, each word I wriet 
Love turns to fire ! 


Yet Jet me keep the book ; 
Oft shall my heart renew, 
When on its leaves I look, 
Dear thoughts of you. 
Like you, ’tis fair and bright; 
Like you, too bright and fair 
To let wild Passion write 
One wrong wish there. 


Haply, when from those eyes 
Far, far away I roan., 

Should calmer thoughts arise 
Toward you and home— 

Fancy may trace some line 
Worthy those eyes to meet; 

Thoughts that not burn, but shine 
Pure, calm, sad eweet. 


ERIN-GO- BRAGH SONGSTER. 188 


And as, o’er ocean far, 
Seamen their records keep, 
Led by some hidden star 
Through the cold deep ; 
So may the words I write 
Tell through what storms I stray= 
You still the unseen light 
Guiding my way. 





THE FORTUNE-TELLER. 


Down in the valley come meet me to-night, 
And I will tell you your fortune truly 

As ever was told, by the new moon’s light, 
T’o a young maiden, shining as newly. 

But, for the world, let no one be nigh, 
Lest haply the stars should deceive me: 

Such secrets between you and me and the skr 
Should never go farther, believe me. 


if at that hour the heavens be not dim, 
My science shall call up before you 

A male apparition—the image of him 
Whose destiny it is to adore you. 

And if to that phantom you will be kind, 
So fondly around you he'll hover, 

You'll hardly, my dear, any difference find 
"T'wixt him and a true, living lover! 


- Down at your feet in the pale moonlight 
He'll kneel, with a warmth of devotion— 
An ardor, of which such an innocent sprite 
You'd scarcely believe had a notion! 
What other thoughts and events may arise, 
As in Destiny’s book I’ve not seen them, 
Must only be left to tue stars and your eyes 
To settle, ere morning, between them. 


110 ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTBR. 


MY GRAVK, 


Sx. they bury me in the deep, 
Where wind-forgetting waiters sleep? 
Shall they dig a grave for me 

Under the green-wood tree ? 

Or on the wild heath, 

Whcere the wilder breath 

Of the storm doth blow? 

O, no; O, no! 


Shall they bury me in the palace tombs, 

Or under the shade of cathedral dumes ? 

- Sweet ’twere to lie on Italy’s shore ; 

Yet not there,—nor in Greece, though I love it mosg 
In the wolf or the vulture my grave shall I find? 
Shall my ashes career on the world-seeing wind ? 
Shall they fing my corpse in the battle-mound, 
Where coffinless thousands lie under the ground? 
Just as they fall, they are buried so,— 

O, no! O, no! ° 


No! on an Iri~h green hillside, 

On an opening |awn,—but not too wide] 

For I love the drip of the wetted trees : 

I love not the gales, but a gentle breeze 

To freshen the turf. Put no tombstone there, 
But green sods decked with daisies fair, 

Nor sods too deep ; but so that the dew 

The matted grass-roots may trickle through, 
Be my epitaph writ on my country’s mind,— 
“He served his country, and loved his kind.” | 
On ! twere merry unto the grave to go, — 
If one were sure to be buried go. 


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ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 1llj 


HALLS. 


Tux barp that once through Tara’s halls 
The soul of music shed, = * | 
Now hangs as mute on Tara’s walls 
As if that soul were fled. 
So sleeps the pride of former days, 
So glory’s thrill is o’er, 
And hearts, that once beat high for praise, 
Now feel that pulse no more. 


THE HARP THAT ONCE THROUGH TARA’S 


No more to chiefs and ladies bright 
The harp of Tara swells: 

The chord alone, that breaks at night, 
Its tale of ruin tells. 

Thus Freedom now so seldom wakes, 
The only throb she gives 

[s when some heart indignant breaks, 
T’o show that still she lives. 


THE {RISH PEASANT TO HIS MISTRESS. 


Turovan grief and through danger thy smile hath 
cheered my way, 

Till hope seemed to bud from each thorn that round me 
lay ; 

The Beer our fortune, the brighter our pure love burned, 

Till shame into glory, till fear into zeal was turned : 

Yes, slave as I was, in thy arms my spirit felt free, 

And biest even the sorrows that made me more dear to 
thee. 


‘Thy rival was honored, whilst thou wert wronged and 


scorned ; 
Thy crown was of briers, while gold her trows adorned ; 


{12 ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 


She woced me to temples, while thou layest hid in caves : 
Her friends were all masters, while thine, alas! were slaves: 
Yet cold in the earth, at thy feet, I would rather be, 

Than wed what I love not, or turn one thought from thee. 


They slander thee sorely, who say thy vows are frail-— 
Hadst thou been a false one, thy cheek had looked less 


pale! 


I'hey say, too, so long thou hast worn those lingering 
chains, . 

That deep in thy heart they have printed their servile 
stains. 


Oh, foul is the slander—no chain could that soul subdue—= 
Where shineth thy spirit, there liberty shineth too! 





THE DEAR IRISH BOY. 


My Connors cheeks are as ruddy as morn, 
The brightest of pearls but mimic his teeth, 
While nature with ringlets his mild brow adorn, 
His hair’s Cupid’s bowstrings, and roses his breath. 
CHORUS. 
Smiling, beguiling, cheering, endearing, 
Together oft o’er the mountain we’ve strayed, 
By each other delighted, and fondly united, 
I’ve listened all day to my dear Irish boy. 


No roebuck more swift can flee o’er the mountain, 

No Briton bolder ’midst danger or scar ; 

He's sightly, he’s lightly, he’s as clear as the founta’m, 

His eye’s twinkling love, and he’s gone to the war. 
Smiling, eto. | 


The soft tuning lark its notes shall cease to mourning © 
The dull screaming owl shall cease its night sleep ; 
While seeking lone walks in the shades of the evening 
If my Connor return not, I'll ne’er cease to weep. 
Smiling, eto. 


es 


ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 113 


The war is all over, and my love is not returning ; 

I fear that some envious plot has been laid, 

Or some cruel goddess has him captivated ; 

And left me to mourn here, a dear Trish maid. 
Smiling, ete 


THE LEGACY. 


WHEN in death I sball calm recline, 

Oh, bear my heart to my mistress dear ; 
Tell her it lived upon smiles and wine 

Of the brightest hue, while it lingered here, 
Bid her not shed one tear of sorrow, 

To sully a heart so brilliant and light ; 
But balmy drops of the red grape borrow, 

To bathe the relic from morn till night. 


When the light of my song is o’er, 
Then take my harp to your ancient hall; 
Hang it up at that friendly door, 
Where weary travellers love to call, 
Then if some bard, who roams forsaken, 
Revive its soft note in passing along, 
Oh, let one thought of its master waken 
Your warmest smile for the child of song! 


Keep this cup, which is now o’erflowing, 

To grace your revel when I’m at rest; 
Never, oh! never its balm bestowing 

On lips that beauty hath seldom blest ; 
But when some warm, devoted lover 

To her he adores shall bathe its brim, 
Then, then my spirit around shall hover, 

And hallow each drop that foams for him, 


114 ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 


THE MEETING OF THE WATERS. 


THERE is not in the wide world a valley so sweet, 

As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet ; 
Oh, the last rays of feeling and life must depart, 

Ere the bloom of that valley shall fade from my heart 


Yet it was not that Nature had shed o’er the scene 
Her purest of crystal and brightest of green ; 

It was not her soft magic of streamlet or hill— 
Oh, no!—it was sometaing more exquisite still. 


*T was that friends, the beloved of my bosom, were near, 
Who made every dear scene of enchantment more dear, 
And who felt how the best charms of Nature improve, 
When we see them reflected from looks that we love. 


Sweet Vale of Avoca! how calm could I rest 

In thy bosom of shade, with the friends I love best, 

Where the storms that we feel in this cold world should 
cease 

And our hearts, like thy waters, be mingled in peace. 


THE MOUNTAIN SPRITE. 


In yonder valley there dwelt, alone, 

A youth, whose moments had calmly flown, 

Till spells came o’er him, and, day and night, 

He was haunted and watched by a Mountain Sprite. 


As once, by moonlight, he wandered o’er 
The golden sands of that island shore, 

A footprint sparkled before his sight— 
*T'was the fairy foot of the Mountain Sprite! 


Beside a fountain, one sunny day, 

As bending over the stream he lay, 

There peeped down o’er him two eyes of light, 
And he saw in that mirror the Mountain Sprite! 


ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 116 


He turned, but lo! like a startled bird 

That spirit fled !—and the youth but heard 
Sweet music, such as marks the flight 

Of some bird of song, from the Mountain Sprite. 


One night, still haunted by that bright lock, 
The boy, bewildered, his pencil took, 

And, guided only by memory’s light, 

Drew the once-seen form of the Mountain Sprite. 
*¢O thou, who lovest the shadow,” cried 

A voice, low whispering by his side, 

‘¢ Now turn and see! ”—here the youth’s delight 
Sealed the rosy lips of the Mountain Sprite! 


‘Of all the Spirits of land and sea,” 

Then rapt he murmured, “there’s none tike thee, 
And oft, oh oft, may thy foot thus light 

In this lonely bower, sweet Menntain Sprite!” 





THE MINSTREL BOY. 


Tue Minstrel Boy to the war is gone, 
In the ranks of death you'll find him; 
His father’s sword he has girded on, 
And his wild harp slung behind him. 
“Land of song!” said the warrior bard, 
“Though all the world betrays thee, 
One sword, at least, thy rights shall guard, 
One faithful harp shall praise thee!” 


The Minstrel fell !—but the foeman’s chain 
Could not bring his proud soul under; 

‘fhe harp he loved ne’er spoke again, 
For he tore its chords asunder, 

And said, “‘ No chains shall sully thee, 
Thou soul of love and bravery ! 

Thy songs were made for the pure and free, 
They shall never sound in slavery!” 


116 KRIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 


STRIKE THE GAY HARP. 


STRIKE the gay harp !—see, the moon is on high ; 
And, as true to her beam as the tides of the ocean, 
Young hearts, when they feel the soft light of her eye, 
Obey the mite call, and heave into motion. 
Then sound, notes—the gayest, the lightest, 
That ever took wing, when heaven looked brightest ! 
7 Again! again! 
Oh, could such heart-stirring music be heard 
In that City of Statues described by romancers, 
So wakening its spell, even stone would be stirred, 
And statues themselves all start into dancers! 


Why then delay, with such sounds in our ears, 
And the flower of Beauty’s own garden before us— 
While stars overhead leave the song of their spheres, 
And, list’ning to ours, hang wondering o’er us? 
Again, that strain !—to hear it thus sounding 
Might set even Death’s cold pulses bounding— 
Again! again !— 
Ox, what delight when the youthful and gay, 
Each with eye like a sunbeam and foot like a feathes, 
Tus dance, like the Hours, to the music of May, 
And mingle sweet song and sunshine together ! 





THE SONG OF WAR. 


Tx song of war shall echo through our mountaing, 
Till not one hateful link remains 
Of slavery’s ling’ring chains— ~ 
Till not one tyrant treads our plains, 
Nor traitor lip pollutes our fountains ! 
No, never till that glorious day, 
Shall Lusitania’s sons be gay, 
Or hear, O Peace, thy welcome lay © 
Resounding through her sunny mountains! 


ERIN-GO-Blit.GH SONGSTER. chk” 


--The song of war shall echo through vur mountains, 
Till Victory’s self shall smiling say, 
- “Your cloud of foes hath passed away, 

And Freedom comes, with new-born ray 
To gild vour vines and light your fountains!” 

Oh, never till that glorious day, 

Shall Lusitania’s sons be gay, 

Or hear, O Peace, thy welcome lay 
Resounding through her sunny mountains! 


THE PRINCE’S DAY. 


THOUGH dark are our sorrows, to-day we'll forget them, 
And smile through our tears, like a sunbeam in showers 
There never were hearts, if our rulers would let them, 
More formed to be grateful and blest than ours. 
But just when the chain 
Has ceased to pain, 
And Hope has enwreathed it round with flowers, 
There comes a new link 
Our spirits to sink— 
Oh, the joy that we taste, like the light of the poles, 
Is a flash amid darkness, too brilliant to stay ; 
But, though ’twere the last little spark in our souls, 
- We must light it up now, on our Prince’s Day! 


Contempt on the minion who calls you disloyal} 
Though fierce to your foe, to your friends you are true 
And the tribute most high to a head that is royal, 
Is love from a heart that loves liberty tov. 
While cowards, who blight 
Your fame, your right, 
Would shrink from the blaze of the battle array, 
The Standard of Green 


In front would be seen— 


118 ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 


Oh, my life on your faith! were you summoned this minute 
You'd cast every bitter remembrance away, 

And show what the arm of old Erin has in it, p 
When roused by che foe, on her Prince’s Day . 


He leves the Green Isle, and his love is recorded 
In hearts whicb have suffered too much to forget: 
And hope shall be crowned, and attachment rewarded, 
And Erin’s gay jubilee shine out yet! | 
The gem may be broke 
By many a stroke, 
But nothing can cloud its native ray ; 
Each tragiment will cast 
A light to the last— 
And thus Erin, my country, though broken thou art, 
There’s a lustre within thee that ne’er will decay ; 
A spirit which beams through each suflering part, 
And now smiles at all pain on the Prince’s Day 


TIE VALLEY LAY SMILING BEFORE MB. | 
THE SONG OF 0’RUARK, PRINCE OF BREFFNI. 


| These stanzas are founded upon an event of most melanchol 
importance to Ireland, if, as we are told by our Irish historians, 1 
pate England the first opportunity of profiting by our divisions. 

he following are the circumstances as related by O*Halloran. 
“The King of Leinster had long conceived a violent affection for 
Dearbhorgil, daughter to the King of Meath, and thougb she had 
been for some time married to O'Ruark, Pris ce of Breffni, yet it could 
not restrain his passion. They carried cn a private comespond- 
ence, and she informed him that O’Ruark intent soon to go on & 
pilgrimage (an act of plety frequent in those days) and conjured him 
to embrace that opportunity of conveying her from a husband she 
detested to a lover she adored. MacMurchad too punctually obeyed 
the summons and had the lady conveyed to his capital at Ferns.” 
Lhe Monarch Roderic espoused the cause of O’Ruark, while Mae- 
Murehad tled to England and obtained the assistance of Henry LL } 


ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. £18 


THE valley lay smiling before me 
Where lately I left her behind ; 
Yet I trembled, and something hung o’er me 
_ That saddened the joy of my mind. 
I looked for the lamp which, she told me, 
Should shine, when her pilgrim returned ; 
But, though darkness began to infold me, 
No lamp from the battlements burned. 


[ flew to her chamber—twas lonely, 
As if the loved tenant lay dead ;— . 

Ah, would it weze death, and death only! 
But no, the young false one had fled. 

And there hung the lute that could soften 
My very worst pains into bliss; 

While the hand that had waked it so often, 
Now throbbed to a proud rival’s kiss. 


There was a time, falsest of women! 
When Breffni’s gocd sword would have sought 
That man, through a million of foemen, 
Who dared but to wrong thee in thought / 
While now—oh, degenerate daughter 
Of Erin, how fallen is thy fame! 
And through ages of bondage and slaughter 
Our country shall bleed for thy shame. 


Already the curse is upon her, 
And strangers her valleys profane ; 
They come to divide—to dishonor, 
And tyrants they long will remain. 
- Bnt onward! the green banner rearing 
Go, flesh every sword to the hilt ; 
Qn our side is Virtue and Erin 
On theirs is the Saxon and Guilt 


120 ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 


THE TIME I'VE LOST IN WOOING, 


Tur time I’ve lost in wooing, 
In watching and pursuing 
The light that lies in woman’s eyes, 
Has been my heart’s undoing. 
Though Wisdom oft has sought me, 
I scorned the lore she brought me 3 
My only books were woman’s looks, 
And folly’s all they’ve taught me ! 


Her smite, when Beauty granted, 
I hung with gaze enchanted, 
Like him the Sprite* whom maids by night 
Oft meet in glen that’s haunted. 
Like him, too, Beauty won me, 
But while her eyes were on me, 
If once their ray was turned away, 
Oh, winds could not outrun me! 


And are those follies going ? 

And is my proud heart growing 
Too cold or wise for brilliant eyes 

Again to set it glowing : 

No—vain, alas! the endeavor 

From bonds so sweet to sever ;— 
Poor Wisdom’s chance against a glance 

Is now as weak as ever ! 


@ This alludes to akind of Irish fairy, which is to be met with, they say, im fey 
@elds at dusk. As long as you keep your eyes upon him, he is fixed in your 

wer; but the moment you look away (and he is ingenious in furnishing some 
Ceracement} he vanishes. I had thought that this was the sprite which we call 
the Leprechaun ; but a high authority upon such subjects, Lady Morgan (in a 
note upon her national and interesting novel, O'Donnel), has given s very different 
account of that goblin. 


ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 121 


THE YOUNG MAY MOON. 

Tux young May moon is beaming, love; 
Tne glowworm’s lamp is gleaming, love; 

How sweet to rove through Morna’s grove, 
When the drowsy world is dreaming, love! 
Then awake !—the heavens look bright, my dear ; 
"Tis never too late for delight, ny dear: 
~ And the best of all ways to lengthen our days 
Is to steal a few hours from the night, my Cear ! 


Now all the world is sleeping, love, 
But the Sage, his star-watch keeping, love, 
And I whose star, more glorious far, 
Is the eye from that casement peeping, love. 
Then awake !—till rise of sun, my dear, 
The Sage’s glass we’ll shun, my dear; 
Or, in watching the flight of bodies of light, 
He might happen to take thee for one, my dear! 


| THE YOUNG ROSE. 

_ HE young rose which I gave thee, so dewy and bright 
Was the flow’ret most dear to the sweet bird of night, 
Who oft by the moonlight o’er her blushes hath hung, 
And thrilled every leaf with the wild lay he sung. 


Oh, take thou this young rose, and let her life be 
Prolonged by the breath she will borrow from thee ; 
For while o’er her bosom thy soft notes shall thrill, 
Bhe’ll think the sweet night-lird is courting her still. 


THIS LIFE IS ALL CHEQUERED WITH 
PLEASURES AND WOES. 
Tuts life is all chequered with pleasures and woes, 
That chase one another like waves of the deep— 
Each brightly or darkly, as onward it flows, 
Reflecting our eyes, as they sparkle or weep. 


122 ERIN-GO BRAGH SONGSTER. 


So closely our whims on our miseries tread, 
That the laugh is awaked ere the tear can be dnea; 
And, as fast as the rain-drop of Pity is shed, 
‘The goose-plumage of Folly can turn it aside. 
But pledge me the cup—if existence would choy, 
With hearts ever happy and heads ever wise, 
Be ours the light Sorrow, half-sister to Joy, 
And the light, brilliant Folly, that flashes and dies 


When Hylas was sent with his urn to the fount, 
Through fields full of light, with heart full of play. 

Light rambled the boy, over meadow and mount, 
And neglected his task for the flowers on the way. 

Thus many, like me, who in youth should have tasted 
The fountain that rans by Philosophy’s shrine, 

Their time with the flowers on the margin have wasted, 
And left their light urns all as empty as mine. 

But pledge me the goblet—while Idleness weaves 
These flowerets together, should Wisdom but see 

One bright drop or two that has fallen on the leaves 
From her fountain divine, ’tis sufficient for me. 


THOUGH THE LAST GLIMPSE OF ERIN WITH 
SORROW I SEE. 


TnHoucH the last glimpse of Erin with sorrow | see, 
Yet wherever thou art shall seem Erin to me; 

In exile thy bosom shall still be my home, 

And thine eyes make my climate wherever we roam. 


T’o the gloom of some desert or cold rocky shore, 
Where the eve of the stranger can hanut us no more, 
I will fy with my Coulin, and think the rough wind ~ 
Lese sude than the foes we leave frowning behind. 


; ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 123 


And Ill gaze on thy gold hair, as graceful it wreathes, 
And hang o’er thy soft harp, as wildly it breathes ; 

Nor dread that the cold-hearted Saxon will tear 

One chore from that harp, or one lock from that hair.® 





OH, THE SHAMROCK! 


TurovucH Erin’s Isle, to sport a while, 
As Love and Valor wandered, 
~ With Wit, the sprite, whose quiver bright 
+ A thousand arrows squandered : 
W here’er they pass, a triple grass 
Shoots up, with dew-drops streaming, 
As softly green as emerald seen 
‘Through purest crystal gleaming. 
Oh, the Shamrock—the green, immortal Shamrock t 
Chosen leaf of Bard and Chief— 
Old Erin’s native Shamrock ! 


Says Valor, “See, they spring for me, 
Those leafy gems of morning !”— 
Says Love, “ No, no, for me they grow, 
My fragrant path adorning.” 
But Wit perceives the triple leaves, 
And cries, “Oh, do not sever 
A type that blends three godlike friends, 
- Love, Valor, Wit, forever!” 
Oh, the Shamrock—the green, immortal Shamrock ! 
Chosen leaf of Bard and Chief— 
Old Erin’s native Shamrock ! 


In the twenty-eighth year of the reign of Henry the VITT, an Act was made 
rej ecting the habits, and dress in general. of the Irish, whereby all persons were 
restrained from being shorn or shaven above the ears. or from weanng Glibbes, 
er Coulins (long locks), on their heads, or hair on the upper lip, called Crommeal, 
On this occasion a song was written by ove of our bards, in which an Irish maiden 
is made to give the preference to her dear Coulin (or the youth with the Suing 
locks) to all strangers (by which the English were meant) or those «bh. @ore 
thei habits ; about the same period there were some harsh measures tah #a aging 


the Irish Minstreis. ‘ 


' 24 ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 


So firmly fond may last the bond 
They wove that morn together, 

And ne’er may fall one drop of gall 
On Wit’s celestial feather ! 

May Love, as twine his flowers divine, 
Of thorny falsehood weed ’em ! 

May Valor ne’er his standard rear 
Against the cause of Freedom! 

Oh, the Shamrock—the green, immortal Shamrock ! 
Chosen leaf of Bard and Chief— 
Old Erin’s native Shamrock ! 


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THE ORIGIN OF THE HARP. 


"T'1s believed that this Harp, which I wake now for thee, 
Was a Siren of old, who sung under the sea; 

And who often, at eve, through the bright waters roved, 
To meet on the green shore a youth whom she loved. 


But she loved him in vain, for he left her to weep, 
And in tears, all the night, her gold tresses to steep, 
Till Heaven looked with pity on true love so warm, 
And @.anged to this soft Harp the sea-maiden’s form. 


Still her bosom rose fair—still her cheeks smiled the 
same— 

While her sea-beauties gracefully formed the light frame; 

And her hair, as, let loose, o’er her white arm it fell, 

Was changed to bright chords, uttering melody’s spell. 


Hence it came, that this soft Harp so long hath been 
known 

T’o mingle Love’s language with Sorrow’s sad tone; 

Till thou didst divide tiem, and teach the fond lay 

To speak love when I’m near thee, and grief when away! 


ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER 125 


TIS GONE, AND FOREVER. 


'T1s gone, and forever, the light we saw breaking, 
Like Heaven’s first dawn o’er the sleep of the dead— 
When Man, from the slumber of ages awaking, 
Looked upward, and blest the pure ray, ere it fled. 
’Tis gone, and the gleams it has left of its burning 
But deepen the long night of bondage and mourning, 
That dark v’er the kingdoms of earth is returning, 
And darkest of all, hapless Erin, o’er thee! 


For high was thy hope, when those glories were darting 
Around thee through all the gross clouds of the world 4 
When Truth, from her fetters indignantly starting, 
At once like a sunburst her banner unfurled ! 
Oh, never shall earth see a moment so splendid !— 
Then—then—had one hymn of deliverance blended 
The tongues of all nations—how sweet had ascended: 
The first note of Liberty, Erin, from thee! 


But shame on those tyrants who envied the blessing ! 
And shame ou the light race unworthy its good, 

Who, at Death’s reeking altar, like furies caressing 
The young hope of Freedom, baptized it in blood! 

Then vanished forever that fair, sunny vision, 

Which, spite of the slavish, the cold heart’s derision, 

Shall long be remembered, pure, bright, and elysiam, 
_As first it arose, my lost Erin, on thee! 


TIS SWEET TO THINK. 


"T1s sweet to think that, where’er we rove, 
We are sure to find something blissful and deas, 
And that when we're far from the lips we love, 
We've but to make love to the lips we are near! 


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The heart, like a tendril, accustomed to cling, 

Let it grow where it will, cannot flourish alone, 
But will Jean to the nearest and loveliest thing 

It can twine in itself, and make closely its own. 
Then oh, what pleasure, where’er we rove, 

To be sure to find something still that is dear, 
And to know, when far from the lips we love, 

We've but to make love to the lips we are near | 


*T'were a shame, when flowers around us rise, 
To make light of the rest, if the rose isn’t there ; 
And the world’s so rich in resplendent eyes, 
*T'were a pity to limit one’s love to a pair. 
Love’s wing and the peacock’s are nearly alike, 
They are both of them bright, but they’re changeable 
too, 
And wherever a new beam of beauty can strike, 
It will tincture Love’s plume with a different hue. 
Then oh, what pleasure, where’er we rove, 
To be sure to find something still that is dear, 
And to know, when far from the lips we love, 
We've but to make love to the lips we are near!- 


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TIS THE LAST ROSE OF SUMMER. 


"T's the Last Rose of Summer, left blooming alone; 
All her lovely companions are faded and gone ; 

No flower of her kindred, no rose-bud is nigh, 

To reflect back her blushes—to give sigh for sigh. 


I'll not leave thee, thou lone one, to pine on the stem ; 
Sir.-e the lovely are sleeping, go sleep thou with thei 
Thus kindly I scatter thy leaves o’er the bed, 

Where thy mates of the garden lie scentless and dead. 


So soon may I follow, when friendships decay, 

Aud froin Love’s shining circle the gems drop away ! 
When true hearts lie withered, and fond ones are flown, 
Oh, who would inhabit this bleak world alone # 


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TO LADIES’ EYES. 


To ladies’ eyes a round, boy, 

We can’t refuse, we can’t refuse, 
Though bright eyes so abound, boy, 

Tis hard to choose, ’tis hard to choose ; 
For thick as stars that lighten 

Yon airy bowers, yon airy bowers, 
The countless eyes that brighten 

This earth of ours, this earth of ours. 
But fill the cup—where’er, boy, 

Our choice may fall, our choice may fall, 
Were sure to find Love there, boy, 

So drink them all, so drink them all! 


Some looks there are so holy, 

They seem but given, they seem but given, 
As shining beacons, solely, 

To light to heaven, to light to heaven. 
While some—oh, ne’er believe them— 

With tempting ray, with tempting ray, 
Would lead us (God forgive them !) 

The other way, the other way. 
But fill the cup—where’er, boy, 

Our choice may fall, our choice may fall, 
We're sure to find Love there, boy, 

So drink them all, so drink them all! 


In some, as in a mirror, 

Love seems portrayed, Love seems portrayed ; 
But shun the flattering error— 

Tis but his shade, ’tis but his shade: 
Himself has fixed his dwelling 

In eyes we know, in eyes we know, 
And lips--but this is telling— 

So here they go, so here they go! 
Fill up, fill up—where’er, boy, 

Our choice may fall, our choice may fall, 
We're sure to find Love there, boy, 

So drink them all, so drink them all! 


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‘THE EXILE OF ERIN. 


THERE came to the beach a poor exile of Erin, 
The dew on his thin robe was hoary and chill ; 
For his country he sighed, when at twilight repairing, 
To wander alone by the wind-beaten hill. 
But the day-star attracted his eye’s sad devotion, 
For it rose on his own native isle of the ocean, 
Where once, in the flow of his youthful emotion, 
He sang the bold anthem of Erin-go-bragh. 


“O sad is my fate,” said the heart-broken stranger, 
“The wild deer and wolf to a covert can flee; 
But I have no refuge from famine and danger: 
A home and country remain not for me! 
Ah! never again in the green shady bowers, 
Where my forefathers lived, shall I spend the sweet hours, 
Or cover my harp with the wild woven flowers, 
And strike the sweet numbers of Erin-go-bragh. 


“O Erin, my country! though sad and forsaken, 

In dreams I revisit thy sea-beaten shore ; 
But alas! in a far foreign land I awaken, 

And sigh for the friends that can meet me no more; 
Aad thou, cruel fate, wilt thou never replace me 

In a mansion of peace, where no perils can chase me # 
Ah, never again shall my brothers embrace me! 

They died to defend me, or live to deplore. 


* Where now is my cabin-door, fast by the wildwood ? 
Sister and sire did weep for its fall ; 

Where is the mother, that looked on my childhood ? 
And where is my bosom-friend, dearer than all? 

Ah, my sad soul, long abandoned by pleasure, 
Why did it dote on a fast-fading treasure 4 

Tears, like the rain-drops, may fall without measure, 
But rapture and beauty they cannot recall. 


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“But yet all its fond recollections suppressing, 
One dying wish my lone bosom shall draw; 
Erin, an exile bequeaths thee his blessing, 
Land of my forefathers, Erin-go-bragh. 
Buried and eold, when my heart stills its motion, 
Green be thy fields, sweetest isle in the ocean, 
And thy harp-striking bards sing aloud with devctiom, 
_ Eria, mavourneen, sweet Erin-go-bragh.” 





THE GIRL I’VE LEFT BEHIND ME. 


ANONYM, US. 
Arr—“ Brighton Camp.” 


I’m lonesome since I cross’d the hill, 
And o’er the moor and valley ; 

Such heavy thoughts my heart do fill, 
Since parting with my Sally. 

I seek no more the fine and gay, 
For each does but remind me 

How swift the hours did pass away 
With the girl I left behind me. 


Oh! ne’er shall I forget the night, 
The stars were bright above me, 
‘And gently lent their silw’ry light, 
When first she vow’d to love me. 
But now I’m bound to Brighton camp, 
Kind Heaven, then pray guide me, 
And send me safely back again 
To the girl I’ve left behind me. 


Had I the heart to sing her praise 
With all the skill of Homer, 

One only theme should fill my lays, 
The charms of my true lover. 


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So let the night be e’er so dark, 
Or e’er so wet and windy, 

Kind Heaven send me back again 
To the girl I’ve left behind me. 


Her golden hair in ringlets fair, 
Her eyes like diamonds shining, 
Her slender waist, with carriage chaste, 
May leave the swain repining. 
Ye gods above! oh, hear my prayer, 
To my beauteous fair to bind me, 
And send me safely back again 
To the girl I’ve left bebind me. 
The bee shall honey taste no more, 
The dove become a ranger, 
The falling waves shall cease to roar, 
Her I shall seek to change her. 
The vows we register’d above 
Shall ever cheer and bind me 
In constancy to her I love, 
The girl I’ve left behind me. 


My mind her form shall still retain 
In sleeping or in waking, 
Until I see my love again, 
For whom my heart is breaking 
if ever I return that way, 
And she should not decline me, 
I evermore will live and stay 
With the girl I’ve left behind me. 





TRE DEAR LITTLE SHAMROCK. 


Lurnre’s a sweet little spot, away down by Cape Clear, 
Sure, it’s Irelaud herself, to all Irishmen dear ; 

Where the white praties blossom like illigant Howers, 
And the wild birds sing sweetly above the round towers 
And the dear little Shamrock that none can withstand, 
Is the beautiful Emblem of Old Ireland. - 


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In his hat, gcod St. Patrick used always to wear, 
The Shamrock, whenever he went to a fair ; 

And Nebuchadnezzar, no doubt highly prized 

A bit of the blossom when he went disguised ; 
For, the bosom of beauty itself might expand, 
When bedecked by the Shamrock of Old Ireland 


When, far, far away, a sweet blossom I’ve seen, 

I’ve dreamt of shillelahs and shamrocks so green 

That grow, like two twins, on the bogs and the hills, 
With a drop in my eye, that with joy my heart filis; 
And I’ve blessed the dear sod from a far distant strand, 
And the beautiful Shamrock of Old Ireland. 


THE WHITE COCKADE. 
J.J. CALLANAN. 
Irish Jacobite Song. 


PRINCE CHARLES he is King James’s son, 
And from a royal line he sprung ; 

Then up with shout, and out with blade, 
And we'll raise once more the white cockade 
O! my dear, my fair-hair’d youth, 

Thou yet hast hearts of fire and truth; 
Then up with shout, and out with blade— 
We'll raise once more the white cockade. 


My young men’s hearts are dark with woe; 
On my virgins’ cheeks the grief-drops flow; 
The sun scarce lights the sorrowing day, 
Since our rightful prince went far away. 
He’s gone, the stranger holds his throne ; 
The royal bird far off is flown : 3 

But up with shout, and out with blade—- 
We'll stand or fall with the white cockade. 


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No more the cuckoo hails the spring, 
The woods no more with stanch hounds ring, 


' The song from the glen so sweet before 


Is hush’d since Charles has left our shore ; 

The Prince is gone: but he soon will come, » 
With trumpet-sound, and with beat of drum; 
Then up with the shout and out with the blade=m 
Huzza for the right and the white cockade. 


THE BLARNEY, 
Arr—‘‘ Kate Kearney.” 


Ox! did you ne’er hear of the Blarney 

That’s found near the banks of Killarney ; 
Believe it from me 
No girl’s heart is free, 

Once she hears the sweet sound of the Blarney. 


For the Blarney’s so great a desaiver, 

That a girl thinks you there—tho’ you lave her, 
And never finds out 
All the tricks you’re about, 

Till she’s quite gone herself, with your Blarney. 


Oh! say, would you find this same Blarney, 
There’s a castle, not far from Killarney, 

On the top of the wall— 

But take care you don’t fall, 
There’s a stone that contains all this Blarney. 


Like a magnet, its influence such is, 
That attraction it gives all it touches, 

If you kiss it, they say, 

That from thet blessed day, 
You may kiss whom yov plaze, with your Blarney 


ERIN-GO-BR4GH SCNGSTHR. 


THE MAIDS OF MERRY IRELAND. 


R. WYNNE. 


On, the maids of merry Ireland, so beautiful and fair, 
With eyes like diamonds sparkling, and richly flowing hair; 
Their hearts are light and cheerful, and their spirits ever 


Bay 
The maids of merry Ireland, how beautiful are they ! 


They are like the lovely ftowers in summer time that bloom, 

On the sportive breezes shedding their choice and sweet 
perfume, 

Our eyes and hearts delighting with their varied array, 

The maids of merry Ireland, how beautiful are they ! 


They smile when we are happy, when we are sad they 
sigh ; 

When anguish wrings our bosoms, the tear they gently 
dry ; 

Oh, happy is the nation that owns their tender sway, 

The maids of merry Ireland, how beautiful are they! 


Then ever like true patriots may we join both heart and 
hand : 

To protect the lovely maidens of this our fatherland ; 

And that Heaven may ever bless them, we all devoutly 


pray 
Oh the mnaids of merry Ireland, how beautiful are they! 





THE COTTAGE BY THE SEA. 
J. H. THOMAS. 


CHILDHOOD days now pass before me, 
Forms and scenes of long ago, 

Like a dream they hover o’er me— 
Calm and bright as evening glow; 


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ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 


Days that knew no shade of sorrow, 
When mv young heart, pure and free, 
Jovful hail’d each coming morrow, 
In the cottage by the sea. 


Fancy sees the rose-tree twining 
Round the old and rustic door, 

And beneath the wild waves shining, 
Where I’ve gathered shells of yore; 

Here I heard my mother’s warning, 
As she took me on her knee, 

And I feel again life’s morning, 
In the cottage by the sea. 


What, though years have passed above me, 
Though through fairer scenes I roam, 
Yet I ne’er shall cease to love thee, 
Childhood’s dear and happy home; 
And when life’s long day is closing, 
Oh, how happy would it be, 
On some faithful breast reposing— 
In the cottage by the sea. 


HEART BOW’D DOWN BY WEIGHT OF 
WOE. 


THE heart bow’d down by weight of woe, 
To weakest hope will cling; 

To thought and impulse while they flow, 
That can no comfort bring, 

\v ith those exciting scenes will blend 
O’er pleasure’s pathway thrown, 

But mew’ry is the only friend 
That grief can call his own. 


The mind will, in its worst despair, 
Still ponder o’er the past, 

On moments of delight that were 
Too beautiful to last; 


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To long departed years extend 
Its visions with them flown: 

For memory is the only friend 
That grief can call its own. 





THE VESPER HYMN. 


Hark, the vesper hymn is stealing 
O’er the waters, scft and clear— 
Nearer yet, and nearer pealing, 
Now it bursts upon the ear: 
Jubilate, Amen. 
Farther now, now farther stealing, 
Soft it fades upon the ear. 


Now, like moonlight waves retreating 
To the shore, it dies along ; | 

Now like angry surges meeting, 
Breaks the mingled tide of song. 

Hark ! again like waves retreating 
T’o the shore, it dies along. 


THE IRISH GIRL. 


-Onz evening, as I stray’d down the river's side, 

Looking all scound me as an Irish girl I spied, 

Bo red and rosy were her cheeks, and yellow was her hais, 

And costly were the robes which my Irish girl did wear. 

Her shoes of Spanish leather were bound round with 
spangles gay, 

‘I'he tears came down her crystal eyes, and she began te 


say 
Och hone, ‘and alas! astore areen machree, 
Why should you go and leave me, and slight your ows 
Molly? 


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The first time that I saw my love, I was sick and very — 
bad, : 

All the request I asked was that she might tie my head! 

I asked her if one as bad as me could ever mend again ! 

For love’s a sore disorder—did you ever feel the pain f 

My love, she’ll noe come nigh me for all the moan I make 

Nor neither will she pity me if my poor heart shoald 
break, 

But was I of some noble blood and she of low degree, 

She would hear my lsmentation, ard come and pity me. 


My only love is faire. than the lilies tat do grow, 

She has a voice that’s clearer than any winds that blow; 

She’s the promise of this country, like Yeuus in the aur, 

And let her go where’er she will, she’s my joy and only 
dear. 

Be it so, or be it not, of her [ take my chance, 3 

The first time that I saw my love, she atruck me in @ 
trance, 

Her ruby lips and sparkling eyes have sv bewitched me, 

That, were I King of Ireland, Q.een of it sh«: should be. 





THE MAID OF ERIN. 


My thoughts delight te wander 
Upon a distant shore ; 

Where lovely, fair, and tevder, 
Is she whom I adore. 

May Heaven, its blessings sparing 
On her bestow them free, 

The lovely maid of Erin 
Who sweetly sang to me. 


Had fortune fix’d my station 
In some propitious hour, 
The monarch of a nation 
Endow’d with wealth and power, 


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That wealth and power sharing, 
My peerless queen should be 
The lovely maid of Erin, 
Who sweetly sang to me. 


Although the restless ocean 
May long between us roar, 
Yet, while my heart has motion, 
She'll lodge within its core ; 

For, artless and endearing, 
And mild and young is she, 

That lovely maid of Erin 
That sweetly sang to me. 


When fate gives intimation 
That my last hour is nigh, 
With placid resignation 
T’ll lay me down and die; 
Fond hope my bosom cheering, 
That I in Heaven shall see 
The lovely maid of Erin 
That sweetly sang to me. 





WHEN HE WHO ADORES THEE. 


W ue he who adores thee has left but the name 
Of his fault and his sorrows behind, 

Oh, say, wilt thou weep, when they darken the fume 
Of a life that for thee was resigned ? 

Yes, weep, and however my foes may condemn, 
Thy tears shall etface their decree ; 

For Heaven can witness, though guilty to them, 
I have been but too faithful to thee. 


With thee were the dreams of my earliest love, 
Every thought of my reason was thine ; 

In my last humble prayer to the Spirit above, 
Vhy name shall be mingled with mine. 


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Oh, blest are the lovers and friends who ae live 

: The days of thy glory to see; 

But the next dearest blessing that Heaven can give, 
Is the pride of thus dying for thee! 


WE MAY ROAM THROUGH THIS WORLD. 


WE may roam through this world, like a child at a feast, 
Who but sips of a “sweet, and then flies to the rest ; 
And, when pleasure begins to grow dull in the east, 
We may order our wings, and be off to the west: 
But if hearts that feel, and eyes that smile, 
Are the dearest gifts that Heaven supplies, 
We never need leave our own green isle, 
For sensitive hearts and for sun-bright eyes. 
Then remember, wherever your goblet i is crowned, 
Through this ‘world, whether eastward or westward you 
roam 
When a cup to the smile of dear woman goes round, 
Oh, remember the smile that adorns her at home ! 


In England, the garden of Beauty is kept 
By a dragon of prndery, placed within call ; 
But so oft this unamiable dragon has slept, 
That the garden’s but carelessly watched after all. 
Oh! they want the wild sweet-briery fence 
Which round the flowers of Erin dwells ; 
Wh. ch warns the touch, while winning the sense, 
Nor charms us least when it most repels. | 
Then remember, wherever your goblet is crowned, 
Through this world, whether eastward or westward you 
roam, 
When a cup to the smile of dear woman goes round, 
Oh, remember the smile that adorns her at home! 


ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTLER. 133 


In France, when the heart of a woman sets sail 
Un the ocean of wedlock its fortune to try, 
- Love seldom goes far in a vessel so frail, 
But just pilots her off, and then bids her good-by ; 
While the daughters of Erin keep the boy 
Ever smiling beside his faithful oar, 
Through billows of woe and beams of joy, 
The same as he looked when he left the shore. 
Then remember, wherever your goblet is crowned, 
Through this world, whether eastward or westward yoo 
roam, 
When a cup to the smile of dear woman goes round, 
Qh, remember the smile that adorns her at home! 





WHEN FIRST I MET THEE. 


Wuew first I met thee, warm and young, 
There shone such truth about thee, 
And on thy lip such promise hung, 
I did not dare to doubt thee. 
_ I saw thee change, yet still relied, 
Still clung with hope the fonder, 
And thought, though false to all beside, 
From me thou couldst not wander. 
But go, deceiver! go— 
The heart, whose hopes could make it 
Trust one so false, so low, 
Deserves that thou shouldst break it. 


When every tongue thy follies named, 
I fled the unwelcome story ; 

Or found, in even the faults they blamed, 
Some gleams of future glory. 

I still was true, when nearer friends 
Conspired to wrong, to slight thee; 

The heart, that now thy falsehood renda, 
Would then have bled to right thee. 


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But go, deceiver! go— 
Some day, perhaps thou’lt wakes 
From pleasure’s dream, to know 
The grief of hearts forsaken. 


Even now, though youth its bloom hag shed, 
N= lights of age adorn thee : 
The few who loved thee once have fled, 
Aud they who flatter scorn thee, 
Thy midnight cup is pledged to slaves, 
No genial ties enwreathe it ; 
The smiling there, like light on graves, 
Has rank, cold hearts beneath it. 
Go—go—though worlds were thine, 
I would not now surrender 
One taintless tear ul nnue 
For all thy guilty splendor! 





WHAT THE BEE IS TO THE FLOWEREFT 


He.—W hat the bee is to the floweret, 
When he looks for honey-dew, 
Through the leaves that close embower it, 
That, my love, I’ll be to you. 


She.—What the bank, with verdure glowing, 
Is to waves that wander near, 
Whispering kisses, while they’re going, 
That Pll be to you, my dear. 


She.—But, they say, the bee’s a rover, 
Who will fly when sweets are gone 
And, when once the kiss is over, 
Faithless brooks will wander on. 


He.—Nay, if flowers will lose their looks, 
If sunny banks will wear away. 
"Tis but right that bees and brooks 
Should sip and kiss them, while they may, 


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WHEN MIDST THE GAY I MEET 


WHEN midst the gay I meet 
That gentle smile of thine, 

Though still on me it turned most sweet 
I scarce can call it mine. 

But, when to me alone 
Your secret tears you show, 

Oh, then I feel those tears my own, 
And claim them while they flow. 

Then still with bright looks bless 
The gay, the cold, the free ; 

Give smiles to those who love you lem, 
But keep your tears for me. 


The snow on Jura’s steep 
Can smile with many a beam, 

Yet still in chains of coldness sleep, 
How bright soe’er it seem ; 

But when some deep-felt ray, 
Whose touch is fire, appears, 

Oh, then the smile is warmed away, 
And, melting, turns to tears. 

Then still with bright looks bless 
The gay, the cold, the free; 

Give smiles to those who love you ‘esa 
But keep your tears for me! 





WHEN TWILIGHT DEWS. 


WHEN twilight dews are falling soft 
Upon the rosy sea, love, 

I watch the star whose beam so oft 
Has lighted me to thee, love. 

And thou, too, on that orb so dear 
Ah, dost thou gaze at even— 

And think, though lost forever here, 
Thou’lt yet be mine in heaven? 


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There’s not a garden-walk I tread, 
There’s not a flower I see, love, 

But brings to mind some hope that’s fled, 
Some joy I’ve lost with thee, love. 

And still I wish that hour was near, 
When, friends and foes forgiven, 

The pains, the ills we’ve wept through here, 
May turn to smiles in heaven. 





WINKING AT ME. 


Kinp friends, your attention I’ll ask for awhile, 
And I'll try to amuse you in my simple style, 

To sing to you nightly it’s a pleasure, I see: 

For, the gents in the house all keep winking at me. 
Winking at me, winking at me, 

Now, how can I sing while youre winking at me? 
‘There’s a gentleman sitting down there at the right, 
He came here to-day in a terrible plight, 

He’s lately been jilted by a fair one, you see, 

And now he comes here and keeps winking at me. 


Mr. , our leader, as each one does know, 
Has lately contrived to let his moustache grow, 
He’s got a nice wife and big children three, 

Now, how can he play, while he’s winking at me? 





There’s a gentleman there now, who should be at home 
Rocking the cradle of babes he does own. 

Spoken.—Yes, that gentleman there, who wears the blue 
sravat and has a rose in his button-hole. 
No wonder you blush, sir, married man as you be, 
To sit there all night and keep winking at me. 


There’s a gent, sitting there, dressed with elegant taste, 
By the side of a lady, his arm round her waist, 

An artful deceiver I fear he must be. 

For while he makes love to her, he keeps winking a) me 


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And now to conclude with my silly rhymes, 

I hope I’ve not offended or wasted my time, 
"T'was meant in a jest: for, you plainly can see, 
'There’s a boy in the gallery keeps winking at me. 


WHILE GAZING ON THE MOON’S LIGHT. 


WHILE gazing on the moon’s light, 

A moment from her smile I turned, 
T'o look at orbs that, more bright, 

In lone and distant glory burned. 
But too far, each proud star, 

For me to feel its warming flame; 
Much more dear that mild sphere, 

Which near our planet smiling came: 
Thus, Mary, be but thou my own; 

While brighter eyes unheeded play, 
I'll love those moonlight looks alone, 

That bless my home and guide my way 


The day had sunk in dim showers, 

But midnight now, with lustre meet, 
Illumed all the pale flowers, 

Like hope upon a mourner’s cheek. 
I said ( while the moon’s smile 

Played o’er a stream, in dimpling bliss), 
“The moon looks on many brooks, 

The brook can see no moon but this,” 
And thus, I thought, our fortunes run, 

For many a lover looks to thee ; 
While oh, I feel there is but one, 

One Mary in the world for me! 


ERIN-GO-BR AGH SONGSTER. 


WHILE HISTORY’S MUSE. 


WILE History’s Muse the memorial was keeping — 
Of all that the dark hand of Destiny weaves 
Beside her the Genius of Erin stood weeping, 
For hers was the story that blotted the leaves, 
Rut oh, how the tear in her eyelids grew bright, 
When, after whole pages of sorrow and shame 
She saw L[listory write, with a pencil of light 
That illumin’d the whole volume, her Wellington’s name { 


“Hail, Star of my Isle!” said the Spirit, all sparkling 
With beams such as break from her own dewy skies— 
“Through ages of sorrow, deserted and darkling, 
V’ve watched for some glory like thine to arise. 
For though heroes I’ve numbered, unblest was their lot, 
And unhallowed they sleep in the crossways of Fame; 
Brt oh, there is not one dishonoring blot 
On the wreath that encircles my Wellington’s name 


Yet still the last crown of thy toils is remaining, 
The grandest, the purest, even thow hast yet known ; 
Though proud was thy task, other nations unchaining, 
Far prouder to heal the deep wounds of-thy own. 
At the foot of that throne for whose weal thou hast gtood, 
_ Go, plead for the land that first cradled thy fame— 
And, bright o’er the flood of her tears and her blood, 
Let the rainbow of Hope be her Wellington’s name !” 


WILLIAM REILLY’S COURTSHIP. 


T'wAs on a pleasant morning, all in the bloom of spring 


When as the cheerful songsters in concert sweet did stag. 
The primrose and the daisy bespangled every lawn, 
In an arbor I espied my dear Colleen Bawn. 


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1 stood awhile amazed, quite struck with surprise, 
Ga her with rapture gazed, while from her bright eyes 


_ Sne shot such killing glances, my heart away was drawn 


She ravish’d all my senses, my fair Colleen Bawn. 


I tremblingly addressed her : “ Hail, matchless fair maid, 
You have with grief oppress’d me, and I am much afraid, 
Except you cure my anguish, which now is in its dawn, 

Youll cause my sad overthrow, my sweet Colleen Bawn.” 


Then, with a gentle smile, she replied unto me, 

“TI cannot tyrannize, dear Willie, over thee. 

My father he is wealthy, and gives severe command, 
If you but gain his favor, I'll be your Colleen Bawn. 


In rapture I embraced her, we swore eternal love, 

And naught should separate us, except the power above 
[ hired with her father, and left my friends and land, 
That with pleasure I might gaze on my fair Colleen Baws 


I served him a twelvemonth, right faithfully and just, 
Although not used to labor, was true to my trust ; 
I valued not my wages, I would not it demand, 
For I could live for ages with my Colleen Bawn. 


One worning, as her father and I walked out alone, 

I asked him for his daughter, saying, “ Sir, it is well known, 

I kave a well stock’d farm, five hundred pounds in hand, 

Whick Vl Share with your daughter, my fair Colleen 
Bawn.’ 


Her father, full of anger, most scornfully did frown, 
Saying, “Here are your wages, now, sir, depart the town.’ 
Increasing still his anger, he bid me quick begone, 
“For none but a rich squire shall wed my Colleen Bawn ? 


FAG ae ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 

I went unto his daughter, and told her my sad tale, 

Oppress’d with grief and anguish, we both did weep and 
wail: 

She said, “My dearest Reilly, the thought I can’t withstand, 

That in sorrow you should leave me, your dear Uolleen 
Bawn.” 


A horse I did get ready, in the silent night, 
Having no other remedy, we quickly took our flight, 
The horse he chanced to stumble, and threw both along, 


Confused, and sorely bruised, me and my dear Collees— 


Bawn. 


Again we quickly mounted, and swiftly rode away, 

“ O’er hills and lofty mountains we travell’d night and day 
Her father swift pursued us, with his well chosen band, 
And I was overtaken, with my fair Colleen Bawn. 


Committed straight to prison, there to lament and wail, ~ 
And utter my complaints to a dark and dismal jail, 
Loaded with heavy irons, ’til my trial shall come on, 


But Vil bear their utmost malice for my dear Colleer 4 


Bawn. 


If it should please kind fortune once more to set me free, 
For well I know my charmer is constant unto me, 
Spite of her father’s anger, his cruelty and scorn, 


IT hope to wed my heart’s delight, my dear Colleen Bawn ~ 





WILLY REILLY. 


“Ou, rise up, Willy Reilly, and come along with me, 

I mean for to go with you and leave this counterie, 

To leave my father’s dwelling-house, his houses and free 
land :” 


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Through shady groves and valleys, all dangers t> refrain; 

But her father followed after, with a well-arm’d band, 

And taken was poor Reilly and his dear Colleen Bawn 


It’s home then she was taken, and in her closet bound, 
- Poor Reilly all in Sligo jail lay on the stony ground, 
‘Til at the bar of justice before the Judge he’d stand, 
For nothing but the stealing of his dear Colleen Bawn. 


“Now, in the cold, cold iron, my hands and feet are bound, 
_ Pm handcuffed like a murderer, and tied unto the ground, 
- But all the toil and slavery I’m willing for to stand, 

Still hoping to be succored by my dear Colleen Bawn.” 


The jailor’s son to Reilly goes, and thus to him did say, 
“Oh! get up, Willy Reilly, you must appear this day, 
For great Squire Foillard’s anger you never can withstand, 
Ym afear’d you'll suffer sorely for your dear Colleen Bawn. 


Now Willy’s dressed from top to toe all in a suit of green, 

_ His hair hangs o’er his shoulders most glorious to be seen; 

He’s tall and straight and comely as any could be found, 

He’s fit for Foillard’s daughter, was she the heiress to a 
crown. 


“Tis is the news, young Reilly, last night that I did 
hear | 
The lady’s vath will hang you, or else will set you clear.” 
‘Tf that be so,” says Reilly, “ her pleasure I will stand, 
Still hoping to be succored by my dear Colleen Bawn.” 


The Judge he said, “This lady being in her tender youth, 

If Reilly has deluded her, she will declare the truth.” 

Then, like a moving beauty bright before him she did 
stand 

“You're welcome there, my heart’s delight and dem 
Colleen Bawn.” 


148 ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 


“Oh, gentlemen,” Squire Foillard said, “with pity look 
on me, 

This villain came amongst us to disgrace our family ; 

And by his base contrivances this villany was planned, 

If I don’t get satisfaction ll quit this Irish land.” 


The lady with a tear began, and thus replied she : 

“The fault is none of Reilly’s, the blame lies all on re; 

I forced him for to leave his place and come along with 
me 

I loved him out of measure, which wrought our destiny.” 


Out spoke the noble Fox, at the table he stood by, 
‘Oh! gentlemen, consider on this extremity ; 

To hang a man for love is a murder, you may see, 

So spare the life of Reilly, let him leave this counterie.” 


“ Good, my lord, he stole from her, her diamonds and her 
rings 
Gold watch and silver buckles, and many precious things 
Which cost me in bright guineas more than five hundre 
ounds— 
T’ll have the life of Reilly should I lose ten thousand 


pounds.” 


“ Good, my lord, I gave them him as tokens of true love, 

And when we are a-parting I will them all remove, 

If you have got them, Reilly, pray send them home te 
me ” 

4] will, my loving lady, with many thanks to thee.” 


“There is a ring among them I allow yourself to wear, 

With thirty locket diamonds well set in silver fair, 

And as a true-love token wear it on your right hand, 

That you'll think on my poor broken heart when you're iz 
_ a foreign land.” 


£RIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 149 
ita out spoke noble Fox, “You may let the prisoner 


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The eds wath has cleared him, as the jury all may kn OW; 
She nas rele.sed her own true love, she has renewed hig 
NAD.e 
May ber Lionu: bright gain high estate, and her offspring 
 ¥ise to fang!” 





WEP ON, WEEP ON. 


WEEP on, weep on, your hour is past, 
Your dreams of pride are o’er: 
The fatal chain is round you cast, 
And you are raen no more ! 
In vain the Hero + heart hath bled, 
The Sage’s tongue hath warned in vain 3 
Oh! freedom, once thy flame hath fled, 
It never lights again. 


Weep on, perhaps in after years 
They'll learn to love your name, 

And many a deed may wake in praise 
That iong hath slept ia blame! 

And when they tread the ruined Isle 
Where rest at length the lord and slave, 

They’ll wondering ask how hands go vile 
Could conquer hearts so brave. 


“Twas fate,” they’ll say, “a wayward fate, 
Your web of discord wove ; 
And while your tyrants joined in hate 
You never joined in love. 
But hearts full of that ought to twine 
And man profaned what God hath given, 
Till some were heard to curse the shrine 
Where others knelt to Heav’n! ” 


150 ERIN-GO-BRAGH SUNGSTER. 


WHAT WILL YOU DO, LOVE? 
BY SAMUEL LOVER. 


WHat would you do, love, when I am going, 
With white sails flowing, the seas beyond 
What will you do, love, when waves divide us, 
And friends may chide us for being fond? 
Tho’ waves divide us and friends be chiding, 

In faith abiding Vl still be true, 
And I'll pray for thee on the stormy ocean, 
In deep devotion—that’s what Dll do. 


What would you do, love, if distant tidings 
Thy fond confidings should undermine, 
And I, abiding ‘neath sultry skies, 
Should think other eyes were as bright as thine? 
Oh! name it not !—tho’ guilt and shame 
Were on thy name—I’d still be true! 
But that heart of thine should another share it, 
I could not bear it—what would I do? 


What would you do, love, when home returning, 
With hopes high burning, with wealth for you, 
If my bark, which bounded o’er foreign foam, 
Should be lost near home—ah! what would you de 
So thou wert spared, ’d bless the morrow, 
Tn want and sorrow, that left me you! 
And I’d welcome thee from the wasting billow, 
This heart thy pillow—that’s what I’d do! 


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YOU REMEMBER ELLEN. 


You remember Ellen, our hamlet’s pride, 
How meekly she blest her humble lot: 

When the stranger, William, had made her his tide, 
And love was the light of their lowly cot. 


ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. | 15! 


Together they toiled through winds and rains, 
Till William, at length, in sadness said, 

“We must seek our fortune on other plains ”— 
Then sighing, she left her lowly shed. 


They roamed a long and a weary way, 
Nor much was the maiden’s heart at ease, 
When now, at close of one stormy day, 
They see a proud castle among the trees. 
*To-night,” said the youth, “ we'll shelter there ; 
The wind blows cold, the hour is late :” 
80 he blew the horn with a chieftain’s air, 
And the porter bowed as they passed the gate. 


“ Now, welcome, Lady!” exclaimed the youth, 
“This castle is thine, and these dark woods all!* 

She believed him crazed, but his words were truth, 
For Ellen is Lady of Rosna Hall! : 

And dearly the Lord of Rosna loves 
What William the stranger wooed and wed; 

And the light of bliss, in these lordly groves, 
Shines pure as it did in the lowly shed. 





YOU’LL REMEMBER ME. 


WHEN other lips and other hearts 
Their tales of love shall tell, 

In language whose excess imparts 
The power they feel so well ; 

There may, perhaps, in such a scene, 
Some recollection be 

Of days that have as happy been, 
And you'll remember me. 


When coldness, or deceit, shall slight 
The beauty now they prize, 

And deem it but a faded light 
Which beams within your eyes; 


452 


ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 


When hollow hearts shall wear a mask 
'T will break your own to see— 

In such a moment I but ask 
That you'll remember me. 





YOU WOULD NOT LEAVE YOUR NORAH? 


“You would not leave your Norah 
To pine alone behind, 

The wide, wide world before her, 
And no one to be kind ? 

The times are hard and trying, 
But, Dennis, perhaps they’ll mend, 

You would not leave your Norah? 
You yet may want a friend.” 


CHORUS. 


You would not leave your Norah 
T’o pine alone behind, 

The wide, wide world before her, 
And no one to be kind? 


Yes, Norah, dear, I’m gung, 
And yet it breaks my heart, 
To see your eyes are flowing 
With tears because we part. 
"Tis sad to leave old Erin, 
A stranger’s home to share, 
But. sadder still, I’m fearing, 
With none to love me there.” 
You would not, ete. 


‘Ihen, Dennis, take me with you, 
You know not half I’d do, 
[here’s no one to forbid you, 
I’ve saved a pound or two. 


FRIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 153 


Pll soothe you in evrey sorrow, 
If first the priest you'll tell :” 
Yes, Norah, dear, to-morrow, 
Then Erin, fare thee well. 
You could uct, ste. 


WHEN THRO’ LIFE UNBLEST WE ROVE. 


When thro’ life unblest we rove, 

Losing all that made life dear, 

Should some notes we us’d to love 

In days of boyhood, meet our ear, 

Oh how welcome breathes the strain, 
Wak’ning thoughts that long have slept, 
Kindling former smiles again 

In faded eyes that long have wepx. 


Like the gale, that sighs aiong 

Beds of oriental How’rs 

Is the grateful breath of song, 

That once was heard in happier hours; 
Filled with balm the gale goes on. 
Tho’ the flow’rs have sunk in death 
So when pleasure’s dream is gone 

Its memory lives in music’s breath. 


Music oh! how faint, how weag, 
Language fades before thy spell 

Why should feeling ever speak 

When thou canst breathe her soul so well 
Friendship’s balmy words may feign, 
Love's are evn more false than they 

Oh! ’tis only music’s strain, 

wan sweetly soothe and not betray ! 


154 ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTEBR. 


JUANITA 


Sort o’er the fountain, 

Ling’ring falls the southern mooa 
Far o’er the mountain, 

Breaks the day too soon | 
In thy dark eye’s splendor, 

Where the warm light loves to dweB 
Weary looks, yet tender * 

Speak their fond farewell | 
Nita! Juanita! 

Ask thy soul if we should part! 
Nita! Juanita ! 

Lean thou on my heart. 


When in thy dreaming 

Moons like these shall shine again, 
And daylight beaming, — 

Prove thy dreams are vain, 
Wilt thou not, relenting, 

For thine absent lover sigh, 
In thy heart consenting 

To a prayer gone by? 
Nita ! Juanita | 

Let me linver by thy side t 
Nita! Juanita! 

Be my own fair bride ! 





WHIP-POOR-WILL’S SONG. 


On! meet me when daylight is fading, 

And is darkening into the night ; 

When song-birds are singing their vespers, 
And the day has far vanished from sight ; 
And then I will tell to you, darling, 

All the love I have cherished so long ; 

If you will but meet me at evening, 

When you hear the first whip-poor-will’s song, 


ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 155 


Whip-poor-will—Whip-poor-will, 
You hear the first whip-poor-will’s song, 
Oh! meet me! oi! meet me! 
When you hear the first whip-poor-will’s song. 


And in the long years of the future, 

Though our duties may part us awhile ; 

And on the return of this evening 

We be severed by many a mile ; 

Yet deep in our bosoms we'll cherish 

The affection, so fervent and strong, 

We pledged to each other this evening, 

When we heard the first whip-poor-will’s song, 
W hip-poor-will-—-Wh p-poor wiil, 

Oh! hea: the first whip-poor-will’s song. 

Oh! meet me! oh! meet me! 

When you hear the first whip-poor-will’s song. 





HOME, SWEET HOME. 


Mp pleasures and palaces though we. may roam 

Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home ; 

A charm from the skies seems to hallow us there, 

Which, seek through the world, is ne’er met with 
Home. home, sweet, sweet home. [elsewhere 
There’s no place like home | 


I gaze on the moon, as I trace the drear wild, 

And feel tuat my parent now thinks of her child 3 

She looks on that moon from our own cottage-door, 

Throush woodbines whose fragrance shall cheer me 
Hoiae, home, sweet, sweet home, etc. [no more.. 


An exile from home splendor dazzles in vain ; 

Oh! give me my lowly, thatched cottaze again { 

The birds, singing gaivy, that came at my call, 

Give me them, with the peace of mind, dearer than ail | 
Home, hume, sweet, sweet home, ete. 


ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 


KILLARNEY. 


By Killarney’s lakes and fells 
Em’rald isles and winding bays, 
Mountain paths and woodland della, 
Mem’ry ever fondly strays. 
Bounteous nature loves all lands, 
Beauty wanders ev’ry where, 
Foot-prints leave on many strands, 
But her home is surely there | 
Angels fold their wings, and rest 
In that Eden of the west, 
Beauty’s home Killarney, 
Ever fair Killarney— 


Innisfallen’s ruined shrine, 
May suggest a passing sigh. 
But man’s faith can ne’er decline 
Such God’s wonders floating by : 
Castle Lough and Glenna Bay, 
Mountains Tore and Eagle’s Nest ¢ 
Still at Mucross you must pray, 
Though the monks are now at rest. 
Angels wonder not that man 
There would fain prolong life’s span ‘ 
Beauty’s home Killarney, 
Ever fair Killarney— 


No place else can charm the eye 
With such bright and varied tints g 
Every rock that you pass by, 
Verdure broidera or besprints : 
Virgin there the green grass grows, 
Every morn Spring’s natal day, 
Brigh-hued berries daff the snows, 
Smiling winter’s frown away. 


BRIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. | 187 


Angels often pausing there, 

Doubt if Eden were more fairs - 
Beauty’s home, Killarney, 

Kver fair Killarney— 


Music there for Echo dwells, 
Makes each sound a harmony, 

Many voiced the chorus swells, 
Till it faints in ecstasy. - 

With the charmful tints below 
Seems the heaven above to vie: 

All rich colors that we know, 
Tinge the cloud wreaths in that sky, 

Wings of angels so might shine 
Glancing back soft light divine ¢ 

Beauty’s home, Killarney, 
Ever fair Kiliarney— 





WHEN THE SWALLOWS HOMEWARD FLY. 


Wen the swallows homeward fly, 
When tie roxes scattered lie, 
When, from neither hill nor dale, 
Chants the silvery nightingale, 
Wherus : In these words my bleeding heart 
Would to thee its grief impart : 
Shall we ever meet again ? 
Parting, ah! parting, parting is pain, 
Parting, ah! parting, parting is pain | 


When the white swan southward roves, 
There to seek the orange-groves, 
When the red tints of the West 
Prove the sun has gone to rest : 
In these words my bleeding heart 
Would to thee its grief impart : 
Shall we ever meet again? 
Parting, ah ! parting, parting is pam, 
Parting, ah! parting, parting is paint 


158 ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 


_O poor heart ! whate’er befall, 
There is rest for thee and all 
That on earth which fades away, 
Comes again in bright array : 
In these words my bleeding heart 
Would to thee its grief impart ; 
Shall we ever meet again ? 
Parting, ah! parting, parting is pain, 
Parting, ah | parting, parting is pain ! 


MY POOR HEART IS SAD WITH ITS DREAMINO 


My poor heart is sad with its dreaming, 
It brings back the once happy day, 
When earth like a heaven was seeming, 
But now it has passed all away— 
They say that young love’s like the flower 
That needs tender care in its urn, 
But mine it was snatched from its bower, 
And I never gained one in return. 
Chorus; My poor heart is sad with its dreaming : 
For, it brings back the once happy day. 
When earth like a heaven was seeming, 
But now it has all passed away. 


My sad heart recalls all the pleasure 

Of thoughts that were all, all for thee, 

When dreaming of you, of its treasure, 
And you seemed to love none but me; 

Tho’ we meet not as friends, yet ll never 
One unkind word to thee give: 

For, your cherished memory ever e< Ta 
Shall be my sole joy while | live! Chorus 


“BIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. | 159 


WHEN YOU AND I WERE YOUNG, MAGGIB 


I wanverep, to-day, to the hill, Maggie, 
To watch the scenes below: 

The creek and the creaking od mill, Maggie. 
As we used to, long ago. 

The green rove has gone from the hill, Maggie, 
Where first the daisies sprung : 

The creaking old mill is still, Maggie, 
Since you and I were young | 


CHorvs. 


And now we are aged and gray, Maggie, 
And the trials of life nearly done : 

Let us sing of the days that are gone, Maggie, 
When you and I were young | 


A city so silent and lone, Maggie, 
Wiere the young and the gay and the best, 

In polished white mansions of stone, Maggie, 
Have each found a place of rest, 

Is built where the birds used to play, Maggie, 
And join in the songs that were sung— 

For, we sang as gay as they, Maggie, 
When you and I were young |! Chorus. 


They say I am feeble with age, Maggie, 
My steps are less sprightly than then 
My face is a well written page, Maggie, 
But time alone was the pen ! 
They say we are ag d and grav, Maggie, 
As sprays by the white breakers flung: 
But to me you're as fair as you were, Maggie. 
When you and I were young | Chorus. 


160 ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 


LITTLE SWEETHEART, COME AND KISS ME 


LittLE sweetheart, come and kiss me, 
Just once more before I go: 
Tell me truly, will you miss me, 
As I wander to and fro? 
Let me feel the tender pressing 
Of your ruby lips to mine, 
With your dimple hands caressing, 
And your snowy arms entwine. 
Chorus: Ah! little sweetheart, come and kiss me, 
Come and whisper, sweet and low | 
That your heart will sadly miss me, 
As I wander to and fro. 


Little sweetheart, come and kiss me, 
We may never meet again | 
We may never roam together 
Down the dear old shady lane ! 
Future years may bring us sorrow, 
That our hearts but little know: 
Still of care we should not borrow— 
Qeme and kiss me ere I go. 
Ah ! little sweetheart, come and kiss me, 
Come and whisper, sweet and low | 
That your heart will sadly miss me, 
As I wander to and fro. 





I WILL BE TRUE TO THEE. 


I wi be true to thee, 
Though I share in thy worst despair 3 
I will be true to thee, 
Though my own heart be bowed with care 3 


BRIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 161 


Though cold neglect upon thy hopes may fall, 
qhouge fears of death may hover near thy soul, 
izugh funeral knells upon thine ears may toll 
Yet, I will be true to thee, 
I will be true to thee, 
I will be true to thee ! 


J will be true to thee, 
Though I roam in far off land, 
Whether on earth or sea, 
In a bower or desert strand ; 
Though darkest clouds may mar the morning beams, 
And vapors dull may settle on the streams, 
Though blighting Time destroy thy fondest dreams 3 
Yet, I will be true to thee, 
I will be true to thee, 
I will be true to thee ! 


I will be true to thee— 
I will pray for thee, night and day; 
Wilt thou be true to me, 
As in years that have rolled away? 
When all thy childhood’s dearest hopes have fled, 
And gloomy visions linger round thy head, 
When all thy dear and early friends are dead s 
Then, I will be true to thee, 
I will be true to thee, 
T will be true to thee! 





LET THE DEAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL REST. 


Ler the dead and the beautiful rest— 
Make her grave ’neath the willow by the stream, 


162 ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 


Where the wind-harps will whisper o’er the blest, 
Like the song of some Angel in our dream. 


Doet. 


Oh! so young and fair, with her bright golden hair ! 
Oh! so young and fair, with her bright golden hair ! 


CHorvs. 


Let her sleep, let her sleep, 

Let her sleep neath the willow by the stream : 
Let her sleep, let her sleep, 

Let her sleep ’neath the willow by the stream, 


Let the dead and the beautiful rest— 
For, the Spring-time is coming with its flowers, 
When the wild-rose will blossom o’er her breast, 
Ags the song-birds will while away the hours. 
Duet and Chorus . 


Let the dead and the beautiful rest— 
Where the long drooping willow branches wave 3 
While the moon, slowly sinking in the West, 
Leaves the stars keeping vigils o’er her grave. 
Duet aud Chorus, 





WHAT ARE THE WILD WAVES SAYING? 


Paut.— What are the wild waves saying, 

Sister, the whole day long ? 

That ever, amid our playing, 
I hear but their low, lone song ; 

Not by the sea-side only—- 
There it sounds loud and free— 

But at night, when ’tis dark and lonely, 
In dreams it is still with me. 


- ‘'BRIN-GO-BRAGH BSONGSTER. 15 


- Peenuxce.—Brother | I hear no singing! 
‘Tis but the rolling wave, 
Ever its lone course winging 
Ovcr some ocean Cave ; 
*Tis but the noise of water 
Dashing against the shore, 
And the wind from some bleaker quartes 
Mingling with its roar. 


Born.—No, no! it is something greater, 
That speaks to the heart alone s 
The voice of the great Creator 
Dwells in that mighty tone! 





TIS BUT A LITTLE FADED FLOWER. 


‘Tis but a little faded flower, 
But, oh! how fondly dear ! 
"Twill bring me back one golden hour, 
Through many a weary year. 
I may not to the world impart 
The secret of its power, 
But, treasured in my inmost heart, 
1 keep my faded flower. 
Chorus ; ’Tis but a little faded flower, 
But, oh | how fondly dear ! 
Twill bring me back one golden hour, 
Through many a weary year. 


Where is the heart that doth not keep, 
Within its inmost core, 

Some fond remembrance, hidden deep, 
Of days that are no more? 

Who hath not saved some trifling thing, 
More prized than jewels rare? 

A faded fower—a broken ring— 
A tress of golden hair? Uborus. 


64 BRIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 


TIS HARD TO GIVE THE HAND WHERE THE 
HEART CAN NEVER BE. 


Tuo’ I mingle in the throng 
Of the happy and the gay, 

From the mirth of dance and song 
I would fain be far away ; 

For, I love to use no wile, 
And I can but deem it sin 

That the brow would wear a smile, 
When the soul is sad within— 

Tho’ a parent’s stern command 
Claims obedience from me, 

Qh! ’tis hard to give the hand 
Where the heart can never be— 

Tis hard to give, &e, 


I have sighed and suffered long, 
Yet have never told my grief, 

In the hope that for my wrong 
Time itself will find relief. 

I will own no rebel thought, 
And I will not wear the chain 

That for me must still be fraught 
With but misery and pain— 

In all else I will be bland, 
But in this I must be free, 

And I will not give the hand 
Where the heart can never be. 

And I will not give, &e 





THE WIDOW IN THE COTTAGE BY THE 
SEA-SIDE. 


Just one year ago to-day, love, 
I became your happy bride, 
Changed a mansion for a cottage 
To dwell by the river side ; 


ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 165 


You told me I’d be happy, 
But no happiness I see— 
For, to-night I am a widow, 
In the cottage by the sea. 
- Ghorns: Alone, all alone by the sea-side he left me, 
And no other’s bride Vl be ; | 
For, in bridal flowers he decked me, 
In the cottage by the sea. 


From my cottage by the sea-side, 
I can see my mansion home, 
I can see those hills and valleys, 
Where with pleasure I have roamed 3 
The last time that I met him, 
Oh ! how happy then were we— 
But to night I am a widow, 
In the cottage by the sea. Chorus. 


Oh! my poor and aged father, 
How in sorrow he would wail, 
And my poor and aged mother, 
How in tears her eyes would swell— 
And my poor and only brother, 
Oh ! how he would weep for me, 
If he only knew his sister 
Was a widow by the sea ! Chorus. 





LISTEN TO THE MOCKING-BIRD. 


Pu dreaming now of Hally, sweet Hally, sweet Hally, 
I’m dreaming now of Hally ; 
For, the thought of her is one that never dies ; 
She’s sleeping in the valley, the valley, the valley, 
Bhe’s sleeping in the valley, 
And the mocking bird is singing where she lies. 


166 ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 


Chorus : Listen to the mocking-bird, 
- Listen to the mocking-bird, 
The mocking bird still singing o’er her grave; — 
Listen to the mocking-bird, 
Listen to the mocking-bird, 
Still singing were the weeping willows wave. 


Ah! well I yet remember, remember, remember, 

Ah! well I yet remember 7 
When we gathered in the cotton, side by side, 

’'T was in the mild September, September, September, 
Twas in the mild September, 

And the mocking-bird was singing far and wide— 


Listen to the mocking-bird, eto. 


When the charms of Spring awaken, awaken, awaken, 
When the charms of Spring awaken, 

And the mocking bird is singing on the bough, 
I feel like one forsaken, forsaken, forsaken, 

I feel like one forsaken, 
Sinoe Hally is no longer with me now— 


Listen to the mocking-bird, ete 


SONG OF INNISFAIL, 


Try came from a land beyond the sea, 
And now o’er the western main — 

Set sail, in their good ships, gallantly, 
From the sunny land of Spain. 

“Oh! where’s the Isle we’ve seen in dreams, 
Our destined home or grave ?” 

Thus sung they, as by the morning’s beams, 
They swept the Atlantic wave. 


ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER, © 167 


And, lo! where afar o’er ocean shines 
A sparkie of radiant green, 
As though in that deep lay emerald mines, 
Whose light through the wave was seen. 
“Tis Innisfail, ’tis Innisfail!” 
Rings o’er the echoing sea j 
While bending to Heav’n, the warriors hail 
That home of the brave and free. 


Then turned they unto the Eastern wave, 
Where now their Day-God’s eye 

A look of such sunny omen gave 
As lighted up sea and sky 

Nor frown was seen through sky or sea, 
Nor tear o’er leaf or sod, 

When first on the Isle of Destiny 
Our great forefathers trod. 


HOW TO CHOOSE A WIFE. 


Tux bachelor leads a miserable life, 
Some folks that are wed no better : 

Yet a fellow may live happy with a ood wife, 
But the question is “ How shall I get her?” 


There are pretty good wives, and pretty bad wives, 
And sme wives worser than others : 

But as for those wives who scold all their lives, 
They are nothing but fuss, plagues and bother 


Some choose them a wife for ease or grace, 
Or a pretty, firm step while walking : 
Some choose a fine figure, some a fine face, 
Yet a very few choose one for talking. 


168 ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 


Then to choose you a wife to join you through life, 
Choose one that can speak sincerely : 
Who, though not over nice can give advice, 
And love a good husband dearly. 


So now, young men if to wedlock inclined, 
May deceit nor flirtation ne’er trap ye: 

May those who are single, get wives to their mind, 
And those that are married be happy. 





RING THE BELL SOFTLY. 


Sows one has gone from this strange world of ourg 
No more to gather its thorns with its flowers, 

No more to linger, where sunbeams must fade, 
Where, on all beauty, Death’s fingers are laid, 
Weary with mingling life’s bitter and sweet, 
Weary with parting and never to meet, 

Some one has gone to the bright golden shore ! 
Ring the bell softly, there’s crape on the door : 
Ring the bell softly, there’s crape on the door. 


CHorvs. 


Weary with mingling life’s bitter and sweet, 

Weary with parting never to meet, 

Some one has gone to the bright golden shore { 
_ Ring the bell softly, there’s crape on the door ¢ 

Ring the bell softly, there’s crape on the door. 


Some one is resting from sorrow and sin, 
Happy where earth’s conflicts enter not in, 
Joyous as birds, when the morning is bright. | 
When the sweet sunbeams have brought us their light 
Weary with sowing and never to reap, 
Weary with labor and welcoming sleep, 


ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 166 


Some one’s departed to Heaven’s glad shore | 

Ring the bell softly, there’s crape on the door : 

Ring the bell softly, tiere’s crape on the door. 
Chorus: Weary with mingling, ete 


Angels were anxiously longing to meet 

One who walks with them in Heaven’s bright street 3 

Loved ones have whispered that some one is blest, 

Free from earth’s trials, and taking sweet reat. 

Yes | there is one more in angelic bliss, 

- One less to cherish, and one less to kiss, 

One more departed to Heaven’s bright shore ! 

Ring the bell softly, there’s crape on the door 1 

Ring the bell softly, there’s crape on the door. 
Chorus ; Weary with mingling, eto. 





‘TIS EVENING BRINGS MY HEART TO THEB} 


"Tis evening brings my heart to thee, 
When all is lovely, calm and still ; 
That welcome hour so dear to me, 
When purest thoughts my bosom fill } 
The bird flies homeward to its nest, 
The zephyr woos the wandering bee, 
The drewdrop seeks the lily’s breast : 
So evening brings my heart to thee ! 
Chorus: To thee! to thee! 
Tis evening brings my heart to thee! 


A truant beam returns again 
To mingle with the orb of day: 
A streamlet, winding through the glen, 
Will lose itself in ocean spray : 
And when the sky with beauty glows, 
And starry eyes look on the sea, 
When weary nature seeks repose, 
Then evening brings my heart to thee! Ohorus 


170 ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 


Oh! I could linger at thy side, 
And dream away my every care 3 
Or fancy life a silver tide, 
With not a wave to ripple there : 
Though fortune frown and coldly spurn, 
And mine a chequered path must be, 
Till mem’ry’s lamp shall cease to burn, 
Will evening bring my heart to thee}! Chorus 





EVANGELINE. 


Sweet Evangeline, my lost Evangeline, 
We have lived and loved each other fond and true 3 
Ever trne to thee, though far away I’ve been 
My heart has ever dwelt with you ; 
But, O, those happy days will ne’er return, 
Those happy days that we have seen; 
For, I am left to weep, alone, 
My sweet Evangeline ! 


CHorvs. 
O, how sad we’ve been, lost Evangeline, 
Since we laid thee where the sweetest flowers wave, 
And the Angels bright, robed in spotless white, 
Are watching o’er thy green and mossy grave. 
Evangeline, Evangeline, Evangeline, Evangeline, 
She’s gone to the silent grave | 


I am lonely now, my dear Evangeline 3 
The days are long, the nights are sad and drear ¢ 
And how changed, alas | each well-remembered sceng 
Since you and I were sitting here ! 
Alas 1 you never more will smile on me— 
And life is now a sad, sad dream ! 
I lived to love none else but thee, asi * 
My sweet Evangeline. Jhorus. 


ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 171 


COME, BIRDIE, COME. 


Beavtirot bird of spring has come, 
Seeking a place to build his home, 
Warbling his song so light and free. 
Beautiful bird, come live with me. 
Come live with me, you shall be free, 
If you will come and live with me: 
Come live with me, you shall be free, | 
Beautiful bird, come live with me. 
Pm all alone, 
Come live with me, 
Come live with me. 


Ohorus : Come, birdie, come live with me, 
We will be happy, light and free : 
You shall be all the world to me, 
Come, birdie, come and live with me, 


Ye little birds that sit and sing, 

Many a thought of loved ones bring, 
Hovering around your tiny nest, 

Calling your loved ones home to rest. 
Oh! happy bird, no thought of care, 

No aching heart, no grief to bear, 
Over the land, over the sea, 

Come change your home and live with me. 
Come change your home, 

No more to roam, 
Come change your home. Chorug, 


Birdie, what makes you fly away, 

When I come near you? tell me, pray : 
P’ll not deceive you, you are free, 

If you should come and live with me. 
Now, birdie, fly, fast to the sky, 

To your sweet home: for, night is nigh, 


172 ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 


And when the sun shines o’er the lea, 
Bring thy sweet mate and live with me. 
Then we will sing, 
Daylight to bring, 
Then we will sing. Chorus, 





I AM LONELY TO-NIGHT.  - 


{ am lonely to-night in my sad little chamber, 
While the stars sweetly shine upon all I hold dear, 
They are gone from their home with the bold — 
fearless ranger 3 
There’s a void in my heart: for, they are not here. 
Oh! why did they leave me alone and deserted, 
To risk their dear lives on the blood-sprinkled plain ? 
Should they never return, this poor heart will 
soon wither, 
And never know joy or comfort again. 


Cyorvs. 


I am lonely to-night, I am lonely to-night, 
While the stars sweetly shine upon all I hold dear s 
I am lonely, I am lonely to-night. 


I am lonely to-night, but ere spring birds shall warble 
Their matinal song in the wild forest tree, 
And the bright limpid brook with sweet music 
shall babble, © 
My heart will grow lighter while thinking of thee. 
Then fleet by, dull hours, and bring back the 
loved ones, 
Who parted from friends with a tear-moistened eye: 
For, then, this sad heart will no longer be lonely, 
But joyous and happy as the mild azure sky. 
Chorus 


ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. | 173 


CARRIE LER. 


Wuere the babbling brook does flow, 
And the honey-suckles grow, 
And the ivy clings around the old oak tree, 
In a cottage neat and small, 
Lived a maiden loved by all, 
My bright-eyed darling, pretty Carrie Lee. 
Chorus: Angels called her: loved one, come ; 
This earth’s no place for thee | 
They took her to their happy home, 
My bright-eyed Carrie Lee. 


When the sun sank in the West, 
And all nature was at rest, 

Save the Katy-did and plaintive Whip-poor-will, 
Carrie’s lovely voice was heard 

Like some merry warbling bird, 
As we sat together on the old door sill. Chorus. 


Oft, at noonday, would we rove 
Through the shady woodland grove, 
And talk of the happy days to come, 
When wedded [ should be 
With my gentle Carrie Lee ; 
And we’d mark that spot out for our future home. 
Chorus, 


acs 


Ah! but now how things have changed |! 
Summer flowers have come again, 

But my darling from all earthly pain is free 
They have laid her in the grave, 

"Neath the weeping willow’s shade. 
And my heart is breaking for my Carrie Lee. 


Chorus. 


174 ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 


DREAMING OF THEE. 


Dreauine of thee, only of thee, 

Still by thy side, love, longing to be ; 
Days wander by, joys they are flown, 
Fondly I sigh, love, pining alone. 
Summer is flying, come in thy bloom 
Roses are dying, cheer thou my gloom. 
Dreaming of thee, only of thee, 

Still by thy side, love, longing to be. 


Star of my night, when shall we meet? 

When shall thy lips, love, sweet words repeat f 
When shall our days peacefully glide, 

Never to part, love? come to my side. 

Summer is waking, roses will bloom ; 

Shadows are breaking, dawn on my gloom. 
Dreaming of thee, only of thee, 

Still by thy side, love, longing to be. 





‘WITH ALL MY SOUL THEN LET US PART, 


Wrra all my soul then let us part, 
Since both are anxious to be free, 

If thou wilt send me back my heart, 
Why, I will send thine back to thee ! 

We have passed some happy hours together, 
While time was ever on the wing : 

Spring would be but gloomy, gloomy weather, 
If there was nothing else but Spring. 


Bay, oh! say not this to me: 
That both are anxious to be free 
Thou dost but little know the heart 
That beats, that beats alone for thee, 


ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTEB. 176 


@h ! thus it is affections wither— 
Like Autumn leaves—so is thine— 
A heart both false and fickle ever [ 
But oh! thou canst not send back mine ! 





THE BLACKBIRD. 


fz was on one fine morning for soft recreatfon, 
I heard a fair damsel making a sad moan, 

Bighing and subbing with sad lamentation, 
Saying my Blackbird most loyal has flown. 


My thoughts they deceived me, reflection it grieves me, 
And I am o’er-burden’d with sad misery ; 

But if death should blind me, as true love inclines me, 
My Blackbird I’ll seek out wherever I be. 


®nce in fair England my Blackbird did flourish, 
He was the chief-flower that in it did spring, 

Fair ladies of honor his person did nourish, 
Because that he was the true son of a king. 


But, O, that false fortune has proved so uncertain, 
That caus’d the parting between you and me, 
Bat if he remain in France or in Spain, 
’ll be true to my Blackbird wherever he be, 


In England my Blackbird and I were together, 
When he was the most noble and gen’rous of heart, 
But woe to the time when he arrived there, 
Alas ! he was soon forced from me to part. 


In Italy he beam’d and was highly esteemed, 

In England he seems but a stranger to me, 
But if he remain in France or in Spain, 

All blessings on my Blackbird wherever he be. 


176 ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTEB. 


But if by the fowler my Blackbird is taken, 
Sighing and sobbing will be all the tune, 
But if he is safe, and I’m not mistaken, 
I hope I shall see him in May or in June. 


The birds of the forest, they all flock together, 
The turtle was chosen to dwell with the dove, 
So I’m resolved in fair or foul weather, 
Once in the Spring to seek out my love. 


Oh, he is all my treasure, my joy and my pleasure, 
He’s justly below’d though my heart follow thee, 

How constant and kind, and courageous of mind, 
Deserving of blessing wherever he be. 


It’s not the wide ocean can fright me with danger, 

_ Although like a pilgrim I wander forlorn, 

For I'll find more friendship from one that’s a stranger, 
More than from one that ia Briton was born. 


THE COULIN. 


(in the reign of Henry VEI. an Act was made restraining the Irish from being 
shorn or shaven above the ears, or from wearing Coulins (long locks) on the heads, 
The Irish bard, in the character of a virgin, declares a preference for her lover 
with the Coulin before any other. Of this song the air alone has come down to us, 
and is universally admired.} 

Tue last time she looked on the face of her dear, 
She breathed not a sigh, and she shed not a tear ; 
And s':e took up his harp, and she kissed his cold cheek,——= 


“’Tis the first and the last for thy Norah to seek.” 


For beauty and bravery Cathan was known, 
And the long, flowing coulin he wore in Tyro.e ¢ 
The sweetest of singers anl harpers was he, 

All over the North, from the Bann to the sea. 


O’er the marshes of Dublin he often would rove 
To th Glens of O’loole, where he met with his love; 


ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 117 


_ And at parting they pledged that, next midsummer day, 
He would come for the last time, and bear her away. 


The king had forbidden the men of O’Neal, 

With the coulin adorned to come o’er the pale ; 
But Norah was Irish, and said, in her pride, 

“Tf he wear not his coulin Vl ne’er be his bride.” 


The bride has grown pale as the robe that she wears, 
For the Lammas is come, and no bridegroom appears 3 
And she hearkens, and gazes, when all are at rest, 
For the sound of his harp and the shecn of his vest. 


Her palfrey is pillioned, and she has gone forth 
On the long, rugged road that leads down to the North ¢ 
Where Eblana’s strong castle frowns darkly and drear 
Is the head of her Uathan upraised on a spear, 


The Lords of the Castle had murdered him there, 
And all for the wearing that poor lock of hair : 
For the word she had spoken in mirth or in pride 
Her lover, too fond and too faithful, had died. 


Twas then that she looked in the face of her dear, 
She breathed not a sigh, and she dropped not a tear 3 
She tock up his harp, and she kissed his cold cheek : 
‘“ Farewell | ’tis the first for thy Norah to seek.” 


And afte: ward, oft would the wilderness ring, 

As, at night in sad strains, to that harp she would sing 
Her heart-breaking tones,—we remember them well,— 

~ But the words of her wailing no mortal can tell. 





THE GREEN ISLE 


Fairest | put on awhile 

ihese pinions of light I bring thee, 
And o’er thy own green isle 

In fancy‘ let me wing thee 


ERIN-QO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 


Never did Ariel’s plume, 
At golden sunset hover 
O’er scenes so full of bloom, 
As I shall waft thee over. 


Fields, where the Spring delays, 
And fearlessly mee sg tlie ardor 
Of the warm Summer's gaze, 
With on'y her tears to guard her. 
Rocks, throurh myrtle bouzhs 
In grace majestic frowning, 
Like some boid warrior’s brows 
That Love hath just been crowning. 


Islets, so freshly fair, 

That never hath bird come nigh them 
But from his course thro’ air 

He hath been won down by them. 
Types, sweet maid, of thee, 

Whose look, whose blush inviting, 
Never did Love yet see 

From Heav’n, without alighting. 


Lakes, where the pearl lies hid, 
And caves where the gem is sleeping, 
Bright as the tears thy lid ts 
Lets fall in lonely weeping. 
Glens where Ocean comes, 
To ’scape the wild wind’s rancor, 
And harbors, worthiest homes 
Where Freedom’s fleet can anchor. 


Then, if while scenes so grand, 
So beautiful, shine before thee, 
Pride for thy own dear land 
Should haply be stealing o’er thee, 
OQ, let grief come first, 
O’er pride itself victorious, — 
Thinking how man hath curst 
Wha: Heaven hath made so glorious ! 


ERIN-GO-BRAGH SONGSTER. 179 


THE FOUR-LEAVED SHAMROCK. 


[A four-leaved Shamrock is of sueh rarity that it is supposed to endue the 
fader with magic power. } 


Put seek a four-leaved shamrock in all the fairy dells, 
And if I find the charmed leaves, O, how Ill weave my 


spells ! 

I Send tict waste my magic might on diamond, pearl, 
or gold, " 

Yor treasure tires the weary sense,—such triumph is 
but cold ; 

But I would play th’ enchanter’s part, in casting bliss 
around, — | 

Oh ! not a tear, nor aching neart, should in the world 
be found. 

To worth I would give honor; [’d dry the mourner’s 
tears,~ 


And to the pallid lip recall the smile of happier years, 

And hearts that had been long estranged, and friends 
that had grown cold, 

Should meet again, like parted streams, and mingle as 
of old. 

Oh! thus I’d play th’ enchanter’s part, thus scatter 
bliss around, 

And not a tear, nor aching heart, should in the world 
be found | 


The heart that had been mourning o’er vanished dreams 
of love, | 
Should see them all returning, —like Noah’s faithful 


dove ; 

And Hope should launch her blessed bark on Sorrow’s 
dark’ning sea, 

And Mis’ry’s children have an Ark, and saved from 
sinking be. 

Oh! thus I’d play th’ enchanter’s part, thus scatter 
bliss around, 

And not a tear, nor aching heart, should in the worid 
be found |! 


188 


‘RIN-G?-BRAAA JYGSTER. 


ELLA REE. 


Ou ! Ella Ree, so kind and true, 
In the little churetiryard hes— 
Her grave is bright with drops of dew, 
But brighter were her eyes— - 
Then carry me back to Tennessee : 
There let me live and die, 
Among the fields of yellow corn, 
And the land where Ella lie ! 
Carry me back to Tennessee, ete, 


Her pretty eyes and gentle form, 
Methinks I yet can see ; 

I love the sot where she was born, 
Way down in Tennessee. 

Then carry me back to Tennessee : 
There let me live and die, 

Amony the fields of yellow corn, 
And the land where Ella lie ! 


Carry me back to Tennessee, ete, 


The summer-moon will rise and set, 
Aud the night-birds thrill their lay, 
And the possum and coon 80 softly step 

Round the grave of Ella Ree. 
Then carry me back to Tennessee : 
There let me live and die, 
Among the fields of yellow corn, 
And the land where Ella lic ! | 
Carry me back to Tennessee, etc. - 


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-FAUGH-A-BALLAGH 
SONG-BOOK. 





FAUGH-A-BALLAGH.® 


BY CHARLES GAVAN DUFFY. 


* Faugh-a-Ballagh ” literally translated, ‘‘Clear the Road,” originated in the 
South and West of Ireland. The regiments raised in these localities took the 
old shout with them to the Continent. The 87th, or Royal Irish Fusileers, from 
their use of it, went generally by the name of ‘The Faugh-a-Ballagh Boys.” 
Nothing human could withstand the undaunted courage and fierce impetuosity 
of these soldiers, when animated by this soul-inspiring cry. Firm indeed must 
be the soldiers who could stand before them, when, rushing like a mountain 
avalanche, they charged bayonets on their opposing foes. At that cry they drove 
before them, in every instance recorded in history, the best and most disciplined 
soldiers of Europe. ‘‘ Nothing,” says Napier, in his History of the Peninsular 
War, ‘nothing so startled the French soldiery is the wild yell with which the 
Irish regiments sprung to the charge;” and never was that haughty and intok 
srant shout raised in battle, but a charge, swift as thought and fatal as flame, 
ame With 't, like a rushing incarnation of FAUGH-A-BALLAGH. * 


‘‘ Hope no more for Fatherland, 

All its ranks are thinned or broken ;” 
Long a base and coward band 
Recreant words like these have spoken, 
But WE preach a land awoken ; 


THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 


Fatherland is true and tried, 
As your fears are false and hollow; 
Slaves and Dastards stand aside— 


Knaves and Traitors, FAUGH-A-BALLAGH 


Knew ye, suffering brethren ours, 

Might is strong, but Right is stronger: 

Saxon wiles or Saxon powers 

Can enslave our land no longer 

Than your own dissensions wrong her : 

Be ye one in might and mind— 

Quit the mire where cravens wallow— 

And your foes shall flee like wind 

From your fearless FAUGH-A-BALLAGH. 


Thus the mighty multitude 

Speak in accents hoarse with sorrow— 

“We are fallen, but unsubdued ; 

Show us whence we Hope may borrow, 

And we'll fight your fight to-morrow. 

Be but cautious, true, and brave, 

Where ye lead us, we will follow; 

Hill and valley, rock and wave 

Soon shall hear our FAUGH-A-BALLAGH * 


Fling our banner to the wind, 
Studded o’er with names of glory; 
Worth and wit, and might and mind, 
Poet young, and Patriot hoary, 
Long shall make it shine in story. 


THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 7 


Close your ranks—the moment’s come— 
NOW, ye men of Ireland follow; 

Friends of Freedom, charge them home— 
Foes of Freedom, FAUGH-A-BALLAGH. 


To make the general tone, and some of the allusions in this song intelligible, 
we should, perhaps, mention that it was written in October, 1842, when the hope 
and spirits of the people were low, and published in the third aumber of the 
Watton, as the Charter-Song of the contributors. It was supposed to be first sung, 
w it actually was, at one of their weekly suppers. 


A NATION ONCE AGAIN. 


WHEN boyhood’s fire was in my blood, 
I read of ancient freemen, 
For Greece and Rome who bravely stood, 
Three hundred men and three men. 
And then I prayed I yet might see 
Our fetters rent in twain, 
And Ireland, long a province, be 
A nation once again 


And, from that time, through wildest woe 
That hope has shone, a far light; 

Nor could love’s brightest summer glow 
Outshine that solemn starlight : 

It seemed to watch above my head 
In forum, field, and fane ; 

Its angel voice sang round my bed, 
A nation once again. 


THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 


It whispered, too, that “ freedom’s ark” 
And service high and holy, 

Would be profaned by feelings dark 
And passions vain or lowly: 

For freedom comes from God’s right hand, 
And needs a godly train, 

And righteous men must iaake our land 
A nation once again. 


80, as I grew from boy to man, 
I bent me to that bidding— 
My spirit of each selfish plan 
And cruel passion ridding ; 
For thus I hoped some day to aid— 
Oli! can such hope be vain ?— 
When my dear country shall be made 
A nation once again. 





AILLEEN. 
BY JOHN BANIM. 
'T1s not for love of gold I go, 
"Tis not for love of fame ; 
Tho’ fortune should her smile bestow, 
And I may win a name, Ailleen, 
And I may win a name. 


And yet it is for gold I go, 
And yet it is for fame, 

That they may deck anotker brow, 
And bless another name, Ailleen, 
And bless another name. 


For this—but this—I go; for this 
I luse thy love awhile, 
And all the soft and quiet bliss 
Of thy voung, faithful smile, Ailleen, 


Of thy voung. faithful smile. 


THE FAUGH A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 


And go to brave a world I hate, 
And woo it o’er and o’er, 

And tempt a wave, and try a fate 
Upon a stranger shore, Ailleen, 
Upon a stranger shore. 


Qh! when the bays are all my own, 
I know a heart will care! 
Oh! when the gold is wooed and won, 
1 know a brow shall wear, Ailleen, 
I know a brow shall wear. 


And when with both returned again 
My native land to see, 
I know a smile will meet me there, 
And a hand will welcome me, Ailleen, 
And a hand will welcome me. 


AWAKE, AND LIE DREAMING NO MORE 
BY THE AUTHOR OF THE ‘‘ DESERTED COLLEGE.” 
Arr—Savourneen Deelish. 


YE great of my country, how long will ye slumber, 
Spell-bound, far rervote from her once happy shore, 
Uninoved by her wrongs and her woes without num her { 
Oh! awake then, awake, and lie dreaming nu more! 

Awaken to fame and peor Erin’s condition ; 

To heal all her wounds ve your noblest ambition 

Oh! break off the spelt of the foreign magician 
Awake, then, awake, and lie dreaming no mure! 


Not the want c* creen fields nor of countless resources 
The sons of sweet Erin have cause to deplore, 

Nor the want of brave hearts for the muster of forces; 
Awake, then, awake, and lie dreaming no more! 


10 THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 


A patriot flame and endearing emotion 
Are wanting to bless the sweet isle of the ocean ; 
Yet Erin is worthy of love and devotion. 

Awake, then, awake, and lie dreaming no more? | 


Let Fashion no more, in pursuit of vain pleasure, 
To far-distant lands in her train draw you o’er ; 
In your own native isle is the goodliest treasure : 
Awake, then, awake, and lie dreaming no more! 
When once love and pride of your country ye che 
The seeds of disunion and discord shall perish, 
And Erin, dear Erin, in loveliness flourish. 
Awake, then, awake, and lie dreaming no more! 





AN IRISH STEW. 


Arr—Paddle your own canoe. 


SURE I’ve sung ye many a song in my time, 
But now ye want something new; 

So I’m afther giving a bit of a rhyme, 
Concerning an Irish shtew. 

For I’ve got the original ould resate, 
For cooking to rights that same ; 

And if ye can only get hould of the mate 
If ve shpoil it, yersilf’s to blame. 


CHORUS. 
So let me give ye this bit of advice— 
Ye can very soon prove it’s true— 
That nothing in life is half so nice, 
As a savory Irish shtew. 


In choosing your mate, don’t “ cut it too fat,® 
Nor by eny manes over lean, 

For the keind 0’ mutton that plazes Pat 
Is—a sort of betwixt and betwane. 


\THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. Li 


Your pertaties should be of the mealy sort, 
And your onions sound and swate ; 
And its pale ’em, and wash ’em, and slice ’em, yea 
ought, 
And pop ’em both in with the mate. 
So let me give, &o. 


Then pepper, and salt, and sason to taste— 
Och! the wather, ’d most forgot— 
Pour in—just enough—if ye schwamp it the laste, 
By jabers, ye’ll shpoil the lot. 
Then yez can sit down and watch the pot boil, 
Till the mate’s done thcroughly through ; 
And you'll soon be rewarded for all your toil, 
By a savory Irish shtew. 
So let me give, &o. 


ome el 


A SOLDIER’S LIFE IS THE LIFE WE LOVE 


AWAY we march to the bugle sounding, 
Our hands are firm, and our hearts are glad ; 
Our steps are light o’er the green turf bounding, 
And happy is the life of a soldier lad. 
For smiling lasses, brimming glasses 
Greet us home when daylight passes. 
And then we sing to the skies above, 
A soldier’s life is the life we love! 


But when from home and call’d to duty, 
Our hopes are high, and our flag’s unfurl’d, 
We bid adieu to smiles and beauty, 

For a soldier’s home is the wide, wide world. 
We seek our foes ’mid cannons’ rattle, 
And when we're victors in the battle, 

Oh, then we sing to the skies above, 
A soldier’s life is the life we love! 


12 THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 


At Waterioo a hero led us, 
Whose brows are wrens d for the deeds he’s deney 
| He tanght our foreign foes to dread us: 

Then cheer for immortal Wellington ! 
For all who hear that hero’s story 
Praise his deeds, and share the glory. 
Then let us sing to the skies above, 
A solidier’s life is the life we love. 


Though some may fall beyond the billows, 
No foot shall tread on the soldier’s grave 3 
We'll bear them far where bending willows, 
In some lone spot, o’er their ashes wave. 
For though a soldier is call’d stern-hearted, 
Tears we give for those departed ; 
And our dirge shall be to the alee above, 
A soldier’s life is the life we love. 


THE BEAR THAT SPOKE IRISH. 


OncE as Father O'Leary was returning home from St. 
Omer, he made a short stay at Boulogne-snr- Mer. ‘Tak- 
ing a promenade he was indneed by. a placard to visit a 
booth where the most wonderfzl bear ever heard of was 
being exhibited. The exhibition was well worth the few 
SOUS paid for admission, Bruin would write with his paw 
on the sanded floor the Lour of the day; would bow his 
head, and lay his right paw on k.s breast when bade to pay 
his respects to any  well- looking woman; would execute a 
step or two on his hind legs, throw up his fore legs, and 
cry, “ Vive le Roi” as well a> ‘ny bear in Europe. After 
executing some things wonderful in their way, he began 
to get tired of the exhibition, lay down in a sulky mood, 
and would do nothing, thongh spoken to in a very angry 
fashion. His exhibitor, seeing threats in vain, spoke 
kindly to him, and he ‘condesvended to give a few more 
proofs of his capacity but all at once ceased to perfurm, 


THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 13 


and would not budge for threat or entreaty. This se 
vexed his master that he administered a few prods on sen- 
sitive portions of his frame, and these bronght ont a sue- 
cession of angry sounds which the priest recognized as 
fearful curses delivered in Irish. He slipped out, called 
on the mayor, and informed him that a live Irishman was 
at the moment exhibiting as a bear in such a place. Both 
gentlemen proceeded at once to the exhibition, and the 
priest approaching the performing animal as near as was 
convenient, asked him in his own vernacular, “How are 
you, Paddy? (Cionus tha thu ?)” and was promptly, per- 
a inadvertently, answered, “ Well, I thank you (Thaim 
go maith; go raibh maith aguth).” The questioner then 
turned to the civic chief, and reported progress, and poor 
Pat was in a very short time uncased from his bearish 
envelope by a handy practitioner brought by the mayor. 
According as his human form went on developing itself 
more and more in its primitive nakedness, the female por- _ 
tion of the andience began to decamp, and very soon a 
suitable covering had to be provided for the poor fellow. 
His story was soon told. The sailors, his present masters, 
had found him floating in the Bay of Biscay ona hen- 
coop, which he had fortunately made his own when ship- 
wrecked. He could only speak Irish, and they French. 
They gave him food, and otherwise treated him well, and 
as the ship neared the coast they planned the exhibition. 
Tle mavor obliged them to farnish ( e:r discharged servant 
with a reasonable stm for his ser vices, and so, by means of 
the priest’s good offices, Pat was restored tu the arms of his 
‘amily and friends in Kerry. 





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BARNEY (© aEA; 
OR, NOW LET ME ALONE. 
Now let me alone, though I know you won't, 
*T kaow vou won't, I kiow you won't; 
Now let me alone, thongh I know you wen’t, 
Fistiawil at Barney O’Hea. 


14 THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONU -BOOK. 


{t makes me outrageous wuen you're so contagious— 
You'd better look out for the stout Corney Creagh! 
For he is the Loy that believes I’m his joy— 
So yor.) petter behave yourself, Barney O’Hea. 
Impudent Barney, none of your blarney, 
Impudent Barney O’Hea. 


1 hope you are not goimg to Brandon fair, 
To Brandon fair, to Brandon fair ; 
For sure I’m not wanting to meet you there, 
Impudent Barney O’Hea. 
For Corney’s at Cork, and my brother's at work, 
And my mother sits spinning at home all the day, 
So no one will be there, of me to take care, 
And I hope you won’t follow me, Barney O’Hea, 
Impudent Barney O’Hea. 


When I got tc tne fair, sure the first I met there, 
Ihe first I met there, the first J met there— 
When I got to the fair, the first I met there, 
| Was impudent Barney O’Hea. 
He bothered and teased me, though somehow he pleased 
me, 
Till at yee the saints—what will poor Corney 
@ 
But I ink the boy’s honest, so on Sunday I’ve promised, 
For better or worse to take Barney O’Hea. 
Impudent Barney, so sweet was his blarney, 
Impudent Barney O’Hea. 





BLACK TURF. 
Ar1rR—Buy a Broom. 
THRovGH Dublin sweet city I ramble, my hearty, 
With my kish of black turf for cold wintry noon, 
They’re cut from the bog of one Felix M‘Carthy, 


Arrah, now buy, acushila, from your own Jack Muldoom 
Black turf, black turf, &e. 


THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG- BOOK. 14 


Spoker.—Will you buy a mock? I will give you twenty- 
four black sods for one penny; devil the like of them 
ever was burnt before for heat, or boiling your pot; just 
take one of them in your hand, troth I am selling four 
pinnerth to Mistress Toole, of Coal Alley, and her decent 
husband, who is a knife grinder, declared to me that he 
ean work without the dispensation of a candle, since he 
began to bum my black turf. Will you buy, Mistherf 
do, acushla. Will you, Mistress? do ma’am; don’t be 
foolish to be spending your good-looking money for coals; 
in troth, there wasn’t luck nor grace in this country since 
the invention of coals, or any ill-lookin’ chimmistical com- 
modity like them—will you buy a mock? Orra, buy of 
Jack Muldoon his flaming black turf? 


When your feet is all snow, and your toes are frostbitten, 
Ayrah, then you'll discover my turf is your friend, 
There’s such light from the blaze that a letter I’ve written 
To my sweetheart, Moll Grogan, for Christmas to spend. 
Black turf, black turf, &c. 


Spoken.—Come now, girls, I am jnst come ont, and the 
first that hansels me will get a fine sod over, orra jewels, 
if you was after seeing the big boat-load I got consigneé 
to myself, by my father-in-law, Murty Grogan. O millia 
murther! this is the lucky turf the quality of Dublin shud 
be fond of; for the very bog it was cut from moved half 
way to Dublin to see you, and only the polis overtook it, 
and wouldn’t let it come any further than my father-in-law’s 
it would be living in Dublin now, and all the young bogs 
would be Dublin people—this is the reason, I tell yez, 
that all yez should lose no time to buy as much as you 
can. Will you buy, Misther? I can only give twelve 
sods for a penny of this turf, for you may depind on it, the 

rents for them are well known; the devil fire the sod of 
this turf, but after its burnt, will walk out of the grate and 
get themselves blackened over and over again, fit for use, 
and ready to boil any kittle, saucepan, or any of that 


16 THR FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 


family, every b.t as well as before, so that you see plainly © 
you will never have the same ‘otunity any more of baying 
such lucky turf. So yez won’t buy—do you want any, myx 
chap? Is that a penny in your hand? Come and buy, 
now, avic; QO rista! crista! what bad times it is, they 
lon’t know the vartue of the turf from the moving bog. 
Black turf, black turf, &e. 


Urra gramachre2 avourneen, avourneen, avoirneen, 
Will you buy, avourneen, my moving black turf? 
I am now nearly broke, to the bog I must hurry, 
And to Jim Cusey’s berrin I'l] be in time for to go, 
Och, he died t’other day, and many he’s left sorry, 
For he was a goud hearted fellow (cries), but now he’s 
laid low. 


Black turf, black turf, &e. 


Spoken.—Och ! och! och! what sundry times those are; 
the world, in troth, is nothing but a boat-load of deceit, | 
and the nonest people from the great gunchability of sick- 
ness, are leaping up out of the world just like young trout 
of a summers day. Orra Jim Casey, avic, you’ve gone 
without as much as bidding one of us good by (eres). 
Och ! heaven be your bed, Darby Quinn, if you war alive, 
it’s yourself that would cry millia murther after poor Jim. 
I would be on the vartue of my oath, if Moll Casey took 
my advice, Jim wonl4 be at work to-day, the dirty sutrican. 
I tould her to give nim a little buttered punch, whick 
would be the means of conglomerating his bowels; bat 
atid of that, she gives him a skillet full of mouldy -olcasm 
non — Will you buy, &c. | 





THE BOYS OF THE IRISH BRIGADE. 


Wuart for should I sing you of Roman or Greek, 
Or the boys we hear tell of in story, 

Come match me for fighting, for frolic or freak, 
An Irishman’s reign in his glory 


THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 17 


For Ajax and Hector and bold Agamemnon 
_ _ Were up to the tricks of our trade, O? 

But the rollicking boys of war, women, and noise, 
Are the boys of the Irish brigade, “. 


What for should I sing you of Helen and Troy, 
- Or the mischief that came by her flirting ; 

There’s Biddy M’Clinch, the pride of Fermoy, 
Twice as much of a Helen that’s certain. 

Then for Venus Medicis, or Queen Cleopatra, 
Bad luck to the word could be said, O, 

By the rollicking boys of war, women, and noise, 
The boys of the Irish brigade, O. 


What for should I sing you of classical fun, 
Or of games whether Grecian or Persian ; 
Sure the Curragh’s the place where the knowing one’s 
done 
And Mallow that flogs for divarsion ; 
For fighting, for drinking, fur women and all, 
No times like our times e’er were made, O, 
By the rollicking boys, of war, women, and noise, 
The boys of the Irish Brigade, O. 


BARNABY FINEGAN. 


I’m a decent gay laboring youth, 

I was reared in the town of Dunshaughlin, 
I'm a widower now in Maynooth, 

Since I buried sweet Molly M’Longhlin ; 
1 married but once in my life, 

But Vil never commit such a sin again ; 
I discovered when she was my wife, 

She was fond of one Barnaby Finegan. 


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THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 


His father had cabins of mud 
That I often went to admire— 
They were built at the time of the flood, 
To keep all his ancestors drier. 
When he found I had Molly bespoke, 
He was getting quite fat, but got thin agats 
In struggle his gizzard he broke, 
And we’d a stiff of poor Barnaby Finegan. 


His corpse for convenience was put : 
Among all his friends in the barn, sir, 
Some travelled there upon foot, 
While others came mounted on garrons, sir; 
My wife for his loss cried and sobbed, 
Though I put her out twice she got in again, 
But I gave her a boult in the gob, 
For which I was soon attacked by the Finegana 


The bed and the corpse was upset— 

The fighting commenced in a minute, sure, 
Not a stick could they get, 

Till they broke all the legs of the furniture, 
In showers the blood flew about, 

Eyes were knocked out and shoved in again, 
But I got a sowestering clout, 

That spilled me atop of poor Finegan, 


Hew long I was dead I don’t knuw.— 

I couldn’t believe I was living, sir— 
I roused with the pain in my toes, 

For they had them both tied with a ribbon, sir, 
I opened my mouth for to speak, 

But the sheets was put up to my chin again, 
Molly roars out, “ you know you're awake, 

You'll be tried with Barnaby Finegan.” 


THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. bs 


You lump of deception,” I cried— 
And | thought to bounce up to knock her about, 
By course as my two toes were tied, 
I was as fast as a spoon in thick stirabout ; 
I soon got the use of my toes, 
By a friend of the corpse, Larry Gilligan, 
He helped me to leap into clothes, 
To go spread a grass quilt over Finegan. 


My wife she came on the spree, 
Full of whisky and grief from the berrin, 
She showed as much mercy to me, 
As a hungry man shows to a herring. 
But one belly-go-fiste: 1 gave 
Her, that caused her to cry and to grin again. 
In three months I opened the grave, 
And threw her on the bones with poor Finegan. 


Now that I’m single again, 
I spend my time raking and battering, 
I go to the fair with the men, 
And I dance with the maids at the patthern. 
Then they think I am stuck to a T 
They'll get shy, drop the talk, and begin again, 
But they shan’t come the huckle at me, 
For they might be acquainted with Finegan. 








BRYAN O’LYNN. 


BRYAN O’Lynwn was a gentleman born, 

He lived at a time when no clothes they were worn, 
Bu, as fashions walked out of course Bryan walked ir, 
Whoo! I’ll soon lead the fashions, says Bryan O’Ly+a 


Bryan O’Lynn had no breeches to wear, 

He got a sheep skin for to make him a pair, 

With the fleshy side out, and the woolly side in, 
Whoo! they’re pleasant and cool, says Bryan O’Lyra 


20 THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 


Bryan O’Lynn had no shirt to his back, 

He went to a neighbor’s and borrowed a sack, 

Then he puckered the meal bag up under his chin, 
Whoo! they’ll take them for ruffles, says Bryan O’Lyna, 


Bryan O’Lynn had no hat to his head, 

He stuck on the pot being up to the dead, 

Then he murdered a cod for the sake of its fix, 
Whoo! ’twill pass for a feather, sess Bryan O’Lynn. 


Bryan O’Lynn was hard up for a coat, 

He borrowed a skin of a neighboring goat, 

With the horns sticking out from his oxters, and then, 
Whoo! they'll take tLem for pistols, s:ys Bryan O’Lynm 


Bryan O’Lynn had nu “okings to wear, 

He bought a rat’s skin to make him a pair, 

He then drew them over his manly shin, 

Whoo! they’re illegant wear, says Bryan O’Lynn. 


Bryan O’Lynn had no brogu * to his toes, 

He hopped in two crab-shells to serve him for those, 
Then he split up two oysters that matehed like twins, 
Whoo! they’ll shine out like buckles, says Bryan O’Lyne 


Bryan O’Lynn b44 no watch to put on, 

He scooped out :. :urnip to make him a one, 

Then he plantea a cricket right under the skin, 
Whoo! they’ll think it’s a ticking, says Bryan O’Lyns 


Bryan O’Ly.n to his house had x. <Joor, 

He'd the sky .vr a roof, and the Log for a floor: . 
Hed a way to jump out, and a way to swim in, _ 
Whoo! it’s very convaynient, says Bryan O’Lynn. 


Bryan O’Lynn, his wie and wife’s mother, 

They all went home oer the bridge together, 

The bridge it broke down, and they all tumbled 1, 
Whoo! we'll go home by water, says Bryan O’Lynn. 


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BAD LUCK TO THIS MARCHING. 
A1r.~Paddy O’Carroll. 


BaD luck to this marching, 
Pipeclaying and starching ; 
How neat one must be to be killed by the French ! 
I’m sick of parading, 
Through wet and cowld wading, 
Or standing all night to be shot in the trench. 
To the tune o’ a fife, 
They dispose of your life, 
You surrender your sou] to some illigant lilt, 
Now I like Garryowen, 
When I heer it at home, 
But it’s not half s eet when * owe going to be kilt 


Then though up late and early, 
Our pay comes so rv ely, 
The devil a farthing we’vc ¢ ver to spare ; 
They say some disasier, 
Befel the paymaster ; 
On my conscience, I think that the money’ not there 
And, just think, what a blunder ; 
They won’t let us plunder, 
While the people invite us to rob them, ’tis clear, 
Though there isn’t a village, 
But cries, “‘ Come and pillage.” 
Yet we leave all the mutton behind fcr Mcunseer. 


Like a sailor that’s nigh land, 
I long for that island 
Where even the kisses we steal if we please; 
Where it is nu disgrace, 
If you don’t wash your face, 
And you've nothing to dc but stand at yuur ease. 


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With no sergeant t’ abuse us, 
We fight to amuse us, 
Sare it’s better beat Christian than kick a baboon , 
How Vd dance like a fairy, 
To see ould Dunleary, 
And think twice ere I’d leave it to be a dragoon. 





THE BOYS OF KILKENNY. 


On, the boys of Kilkenny are brave roaring blades, 

And if ever they meet with the nice little maids, 

They’ll kiss them ana coax them, and spend their hiotOY¥ 
free 

Of all the towns of Treland, Kilkenny for me. 


In the town of Kilkenny there runs a clear stream, 
In the town of Kilkenny there lives a pretty dame, 
Her lips are like roses and her mouth much the Balas, 
Like a dish of fresh strawberries smothered in cream. 


Her eyes are as black as Kilkenny’s large coal, 
Which through my bosom has burnt a large hole, 
Her inind, like its river, is mild, clear and pure, 

But her heart is more hard than its marble, I’m sure. 


Kilkenny’s a pretty town, and shines where it stands, 
And the more I think of it the more my heart warms, 
If I was at Kilkenny, I should then be at home, 

For there I got sweethearts, but here can get none. 


Pll build my love a castle on Kilkenny’s free ground, 
Neither lords, dukes, nor squires, shall ever pull it down, 
And if any one should ask you to tell him my name, 

T am an Irish exile ard from Kilkenny I came 


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BIDDY TOOLE; 
OR, THE ROVING GARDENER. 


My name ts Barney Brallaghen, I’m a gardener by trade, 
Served seven years in one situation ; 
[ first lost my heart, then threw away my spade; 
Oh! liscen to my long lamentation ! 
Ohi, my! the world is now to me 
A garden of great desolation ! * 
(’m a stem without a flower since I lost my Biddy Toole, 
And left in a state of agitation. 


CHORUS. 
Oh, my! look upen me now! 
Will you take a quiet observation ? 
I have been to Donnybrook to look for Biddy Toole, 
And return’d in a state of agitation. 


Her father was a baker, and her mother was a cook, 
And they gave her a good education ; 
She could “ Parly voo Fransay,” and talk it like a book 
And sing it with a deal of animation. 
Oh, my! then to hear her play 
The piano, it was worth a fortune; 
For hours I have stood at “In my Cottage near a Wood, 
_And “Love among the Roses,” was a caution. 
Oh, my! look upon me now, &@ 


I coxrted her in silence, for “I never told my love,” 
I thought she was so much above my station; 
To gain her hand and heart across the seas I’d rove, 
And try my hand at foreign emigration. 
Oh! why did I leave my love behind? 
I must have been a piece of vegetation, 
To leave off digging mould to go and dig for gold, 
And return in a state of agitation. 
, Oh, my! look upon me now, &e 


£4 THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 


I crssed the briny ocean, and in a foreign land, 
I found for myself a habitation : 
Alone and solitary, I oft thought of Biddy peas 
She was my only consolation. 
Oh, my! digging every day, 
My brow in a ‘proiling perspiration ; 
But credit to the bold, T found a lump of gold, 
And return’d in a state of agitation. 
Oh, my | look upon me now, &e. 


I hurried to her father’s, and asked for Biddy Toole, 
And told him Il’d come ACTOSS the ocean, 
With my pocket full of gu ni and my heart and my hanj, 
To offer my ‘true love’s aevotion.” 
Oh, my! list to his reply— 
“Yon ought to have been here a little sooner ; 
But if you should go to Donnybrook, ask for Mrs. Jones, 
She’s married to a piany-fortey tooner ! ” 
Oh, my! look upon me now, &e. 


MORAL. 
They say there’s many a slip ’twixt the goblet and the 
lip, 
So, bachelors, a word or two I crave you; 
Before you risk your life for a fortune or a wife, 
_ Be certain that the lady fair will have you. 
~ Oh, my! to them you must go and boldly declare yous 
adoration ; 
For how are they to know? If you never tell them so 
ou’ll be left in a state of agitation, 
Oh, my! lovuk upon me now, &c. 


BARNEY BRALLAGHAN. 


"T'was on a windy night about two o’clock in the morning, 
An Irish lad so tight, all wind and weather scorning ; 

At Judy Callaghan’ 8 dvor, sitting upon the paling, 

His love tule he did pour, ‘and this is part of his wailing 


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i CHORUS. | 
Only say—you’ll be Mistress Brallaghan 
Don’t say nay—charming Judy Callaghan. 


‘Oh! list to what I say, charms you've got like Venus, 
Own your love you may, for there’s only the wall between 
us. 
You lay fast asleep, snug in bed and snoring, 
While roand the house I creep—your hard heart imploring 
Then do say, &c. 


V’ve got an acre of ground, I’ve got it set with praties. 
I’ve got tobacco a pound, and I’ve got some tea for the 
ladies. 
- [ve got a ring to wed, some whiskey to make us gaily, 
A mattrass, feather bed, and a handsome new shilleela. 
Then do say, &e. 


I’ve got an old tom-cat, which through one eye is staring 

V’ve got a Sunday hat, a little the worse for wearing. 

A Sunday hose and coat, and old gray mare to ride on, 

A saddle and bridle to boot, that you may ride astride on. 
If yowll say, &e. 


P’ve got nine pigs and a sow, and I’ve got a sty to keep ’em. 
A calf and a brindle cow, and I’ve a cabin to sleep ’em. 
T’ve got some gooseberry wine, the trees they grew na 
riper on, 
And fine potheen galore that we can feed the piper on 
When you say, &e. 


You've gct « charming eye, you've got some spelling and 
reading, 
You've got, and so have I, a taste for genteel breeding, 
You're rich and fair and young, as every body’s knowing 
And you've got a decent tongue whenever you set it 
going. 
Then do say, &e. 


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Oh! for a wife till death I am willing to ake yoa, 

But oh! I spend my breath, the d—1 himself can’t wake 
vou, 

Tis just beginning to rain—so [ll get under cover, 

V'll come to-morrow again to be your ccnstant lover 


If you'll say, &e 





BILLY O’ROURKE. 


fartH, I grased my brozues and cut my stick at tke 
latther end of May, sirs, 
Then off to Dublin town I tripped, to walk upon the quay, 
sirs 
To see if I could get employ to cut their hay and corn, sirs, 
{‘o pick up pence upon the sea the cockneys I might lam, 
sirs. 
CHORUS. 
With my phillaloo and heart so true, 
Arrah! Billy O’Rourke’s the Bouchal. 


4 gave the captain six thirteens, to carry me o’er to Forgate, 
But before we got half of the road the wind it blew at a 
hard rate ; 

Says the captain, says he, “to the hottom we'll go,” 

Says I, “I don’t care a farthin’ , 
T hired you to carry me to Porgate, vou know, 

And I’]] make you stick to your bargain,” 

With my nhillaloe &e 


The great big stick that graw out of the ship, 
Jt began t> roar and shiver, 
And one and all both great and small 
Cried, “ Paddy, you'll go to the river.” 
[ put a girl upon my back, 
] jumped into the wather, 
“Och murther, Pat, what are you at?” 
But safe to land I brought her. 
With my phillaloo, &e 


THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 27 


{ met an honest gentleman a travelling the road, sirs, 

% Good morning,” says I, “ pray how do you do?” but he 
proved a mighty rogue, sirs, 

For at the corner of a lane a pistol he pulled ont, sirs, 

And he rammed the muzzle, arrah, what a shame! inte 
my ~cry mouth, sirs. 


With my phillaloo, &c. 


Your money, b!asi your Irish eyes!” “ Arrah! be metci- 

ful,” cried I, sirs, 

He swore my brains he would blow out, if I should bawl 
or cry, Sirs, 

He levelled fair jus: for my sconce, three steps I did retire, 
sirs, 

His pan it flashed, and his head I smashed—Och ! a 
shillelah neve: misses fire, sirs. 

With my phillaloo, &o. 





FRENNAN ON THE MOOR. 


Iv’s of a fan.ous highwayman a story I will tell ; 

His name was Willy Brennan, in Ireland he did dwell ; 

And on the Kilworth mountains he commenced his wild 
career, 

Where many a wealthy gentleman before him shook with 
fear. 


CHORUS: 


Brennan on the Moor, Brennan on the Moor, 
Bold and undaunted stood young Brennan on the Moor 


A brace of loaded pistols he carried night and day ; 
He never robbed a poor man upon the king’s highway; 
But what he’d taken from the rich, like Turpin and Blach 
Bess, 
He always did divide it with the widow in distress. 
Chorns—Brennan on the Meor &o 


28 THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 


One night he robbed a packman, of the name of Pedlas 
Bawn ; 3 

They travelled together till the day began to dawn ; 

The pedlar seeing his money gone, likewise his watch and 
chain 

He at once encountered Brennan and robbed him back 
again. 

Chorus—Brennan on the Moor, &c. 


Now, Brennan seeing the pedlar as good a man as he, 

He says, *‘ My worthy hero, will you come along with me?” 

The pedlar, being stout-hearted, he threw his pack away, 

And he proved a loyal comrade until his dying day. 
Chorus—Brennan on the Moor, &c. 


One day on the highway, as Willy he sat down, 
He met the Mayor of Cashel a mile outside the town, 
The Mayor, he knew his features—“I think, young man,” 
sid he, 
“Your name is Willy Brennan—you must come along with 
me.” 
Chorus—Brennan on the Moor, &c.. 


Ar Brennan’s wife had gone to town provisions for to buy, — 
When she saw her Willy, she began to weep and cry, 
He says, “Give me that tenpenny.” As soon as Willy 
spoke 
Bhe handed him a blunderbuss from underneath her cloak. 
Chorus—Brennan on the Moor, &e. 


Then with his loaded blunderbuss—the truth I will unfold— _ 
He made the Mayor to tremble, and robbed him of his gold; 
One hundred pounds was offered for his apprehension there, 
And he, with his horse and saddle, to the mountain did 
repair. 
Chorus—Brennan on the Moor, &e. 


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Lhen Brennan being an outlaw upon the mountain high, 
The cavalry and infantry to take him they did try; 
He laughed at them with scorn, until at length, it’s said, 
By a false-hearted woman he basely was betrayed. 

| Chorus—Brennan on the Moor, &c. 


In the County Tipperary, at a place they call Clonmore, 
Willy Brennan and his comrade that day did suffer sore: 
He lay amongst the fern, which was thick upon the field, 
And nine wounds he did receive before that he did yield. 
Chorus—Brennan on the Moor, &c. 


Then Brennan and his companion, when they were betrayed, 

They with the mounted cavalry a noble battle made; 

He lost his foremost finger, which was shot off by a ball, 

So Brennan and his comrade were taken after all. 
Chorus—Brennan on the Moor, &c. 


So they were taken prisoners, in irons they were bound, 

And conveyed to Clonmel Jail, strong walls did them 
surround. 

They were tried and found guilty—the Judge made thia 
reply: 

Or Abhine ontheking’s highway you’re both condemned 
to die.” Chorus—Brennan on the Moor, &c. 


When Brennan heard his sentence, he made this reply : 
“T own that I did rob the rich, and did the poor supply ; 
In all the deeds that I have done I took no life away ; 
The Lord have mercy on my soul against the judgmen 
day.” Chorus—Brennan on the Moor, &ec. 


“Farewell unto my wife, and to my children three, 

Likewise my aged father—he may shed tears for me; 

And to my loving mother’—who tore her gray locks and 
cried 

Saying, dy wish, Willy Brennan, in your cradle you had 
died.” Chorus—Brennan on the Moor, &c. 


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30 THE FAUGH-a-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 


BARNEY O’TOOLE. 


Ou! be still, Barney, dear, with your jealous complain.s, 
For you know that your darling’s as true as the saints; 
Ob! you'll break the young heart that you won long age 
And that would be murder, dear Barney, you know. 


CHORUS. 


Oh! Barney, Barney, Barney, Barney O’Toole; 
And taught her to love you so, Barney O’Toole. 


It’s yourself that would tell me a different tale, 

With your arms round my waist, in the Dargle’s sweet vale, 
When your own winning tongue made your Norah a fool, 
And told her to love you so, Barney O'Toole. 


Oh! Barney, Barney, Barney, Barney O’Toole, 
T’ll be jealous of you, Mr. Barney O”Poole. 


Oh! youswore that the wild rose which grew o’er my head, 
And the violets hid in its soft mossy bed, 
Where the emblems of innocence, beauty, and truth, 
And you said, Barney dear, I was fairer than both. 
Oh, Barney, &e. 


Am I different now? that you’re always in doubt, 
With your cruel suspicions of what I’m about ; 
You had better be careful, or by the same rule, 
Pll be jealous of you, Mr. Barney O’Toole. 
Oh, Barney, &e. 


Say once more, Barney darling, the word in ear, 
That the girl of your heart is still cherish’d and dear ; 
And believe that your Norah is faithful and true, 
For she lives for you, Barney, and only for you. 
Oh, Barney, &e. 


THE FAUGH A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOR. 3] 


BIDDY McCARTY. 
AIR—Robinson Crusoe. 


Kinp frienas, if you'll listen, ’ll sing you a song, 
And one that I hope you'll be pleased at. 

I’m not very fat, but then what of that ? 
I’m a person that’s not to be sneezed at. 

Now, I don’t weigh as much as a fish-ball, 
Though once I was fat, plump, and hearty ; 

For I’m pining away, since I met with, one day, 
A pea-nut girl, Biddy McCarty. 
For I’m pining away, since I met with, one day, 

A pea-nut girl, Biddy McCarty. 


Miss Biddy and I used to meet on the sly, 
I’d treat her whenever she’d ax it; 

Each day, on the street, Miss Biddy I’d meet, 
Going round, peddling nuts in a basket. 

' Sure, I thought I was all right with her then, 

When I took her, one night, to a party ; 

There a butcher so stout, oh! he cut me right out, 
And he stole away Biddy McCarty. 
There a butcher so stout, oh! he cut me right out, 

And he stole away Biddy McCarty. 





BOWLD SOJER BOY. 


UH, there’s not a trade that’s going, worth showing ox 
knowing, 

Like that from glory growing, for a Bowld Sojer Boy ; 

Where right or left we go, sure you know, friend or foe 

Will have the hand or toe from the Bowld Sojer Boy. 

There’s not a town we march thre’, but ladies looking arch 
thro’ : 

The window panes will search thro’ the ranks to find 
their joy, 

While up the street, each girl you meet, with look so sly 
will cry “My eve, 

Oh, isn’t he a darling, the Bowld Sojer Boy!” 


32 THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 


But when we get the rout, how they pout and they shout, 

While to the right about goes the Bowld Sojer Boy. 

"Tis then the ladies fair, in despair, tear their hair, 

But the devil a one I care, says the Bowld Sojer Boy. 

For the world is all before us, where the landladies adore us, 

And ne’er refuse to score us, but chalk us up with joy. 

We taste her tap, we tear her cap, “Oh, that’s the chap 
for me,” says she, 


“Oh, is’nt he a darling, the Bowld Sojer Boy.” 


Yhen come along with me, gramachree, and you'll see 
How happy you will be with your Bold Sojer Boy. 
Faith if you’re up to fun, with me run, ’twill be done 
In the snapping of a gun, says the Bowld Sojer Boy. 
And ’tis then that without scandal, myself would proudly 
dandle, 
The little farthing candle of our mutual love and joy. 
May his light shine as bright as mine, till in the line 
he’ll blaze, and raise 
The glory of his corps, like a Bowld Soja Lov. 





BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORB 


Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, 
As his corse to the ramparts we hurried ; 

Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot 
O’er the grave where our hero we buried. 


We buried him darkly at dead of night, 
The sod with our bayonets turning, 

By the struggling moonbeam’s misty light 
And the lantern dimly bu-ning. 


No useless coffin confined his breast, 
Nor in sheet or shroud we bound him; 

But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, 
With his martial cloak around him. 


THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 33 


Few and short were the prayers we said, 
And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; 

But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, 
And we bitterly thought of the morrow. 


We thonght, as we heap’d his narrow bed, 
And smootl’d down his lonely pillow, 
- That the foe and the stranger would tread o’er his head 
And we far away on the billow. 


Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that’s gone, 
And o’er his cold ashes upbraid him: 

But nothing he’ll reck if they’ll let him sleep op 
In ‘ve grave where a Brit-y has laid him. 


But half our heavy task was duue, 
When the clock told the hour for retiring ; 
And we heard by the distant and randov gum, 
That the foe was sul:enly firing. 


Slowly and sadly we laid him down, 
From the field oi his fame fresh and gory, 
We carved nut a line, we raised not a stone, 
But we left him alone in his glory. 





CROOS-KEEN LAWN. 


Lzt the farmer praise his grounds, 
As the huntsman doer his hounds, 
And the shepherd his sweet-scented lawn, 
While I more blest than they, 
Spend each happy night and day 
With my smiling little Croos-keen lawn, lawn, lawn, 
Oh, my smiling little Croos-keen lawn. 
Leante rama Croos-keen 
Sleante gar ma voor meh neen 
Agus gramachree, ma cvoleen ban, ban, ban, 
Agus gramachree, ma covleen ban. 


we THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-ROOK. 


in court with manly grace, 
Should Sir Toby plade his case, 
And she merits of his cause make known, 
Witneut nis cheerful glass, 
He’d be stupid as an ass, 
So he takes a little Croos-keen lawn. 


Leante ruma, &&e. 


‘Chen fill your glasses high, 

Let’s not part with lips so dry, 
Thouch the terk should proclaim it is dawn ; 

But. if we can’t remain, 

M:y we shortly meet again, 
To tii «nother Croos-keen lawn. 


Leante ruma, é&e. 


And vken grim death appears, 
A‘ter tew but happy years, 
And tells me my glass it is run, 
T’li say, begone you slave, 
For great Bacchus gives me lave 
Just to fill another Croos-keen lawn. 


Leante ruma, &e, 





CORPORAL CASEY. 


WHEN I was at home I was merry and frisky, 
My dad kept a pig, and my mother sold whiskey, 
My uncle was rich, but could never be aisy, 

Till I was enlisted by Corporal Casey. 


Spoken.—The corporal was an odd sort of a man, and 
h. came every morning into my mother’s house and took 
hin drops of calamity water, as he used to call it; and then 
he drew up a long big form before the fire, and he'd sit 
himself down, and take me upon his knee, and tell me of 
all uhe Spanish generals he killed, and all the French bat- 
tles that he’d won. Now, you must know, that I felt a 
sort of sneaking kindness to a red coat; so says I to the 


THE FaUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOR. 3A 


eevee one morning, “ Would you have any objection to 
make ie a bit of asoldier?” “Musha avontneun,” says the 
corporal, “I don’t care if Ido.” So with tha: he tips me a 
bright shilliag and away I goes to his 


Rub a dub, row de dow, Corporal Casey, 

Oh, rb a dub, row de dow, Corporal Casey, 

My dear little Sheelak I thought would turn crazy, 
Oh, when i trudzed away with tough Corporal Casey 


I marched from Kilkenny, and as I was thinking 
On Sheelah, my heart in my bosom was sinking ; 
But soon I was forced to look fresk as a daisy, 
For fear of a drnbbing rrum Corporal Casey. 


Spoken.—W ell, there we weie, all drawn out upon the 
parece rank and file, as they call it—so says I to myself, 

atrick, my uoney, the best thing you can do is, to make 
friends ot the corporal. Now, I knew if anything could 
get over hinn at ali at all, ’twoula ve the thoughts of the 
ouneen. So over I goes to him—‘ Morrow to you, Mr. 
Corporal,” says I, speaking very dignihed to him, “ would 
your honors reverence and glory like w take a drop of 
anything to drink this morning?” “ By the powers,” say# 
he. “I don't care if I do.? So over I goes to the sign of the 
Sack and Water—just such another little hole in the wall ae 
my poor culd mother kept 1n her time—God rest her soul, 
she’s dead and gune—well, there I calls for three naggine 
of whiskey, and upon my honor if I ever got one drop of 
it. Well over we comes again upon the parade, rank and 
file, as thy call it—so, right about left, says the corporal. 
Now you must know that my left arm was hanging over 
my right shoulder that morning. So over the Corporal 
comes to me, and he gives me such a loudogue under tha 
ear, that uch, by the powers, it made me caper to bis 


Rub a dub, row de dow, Corporal Casey, 

Och, rub a dub, row de dow, Corporal Casey, 
Thad to go with him, I ne'er couid be aisy, 
He stuck in my skirty so, ould Corporal Casey. 


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36 THE FAUGH-A-BaLLAGH SONG-hOOK. 


We went into battle, I took the blows fairly, 

“That fell on my pate, but they bothered me rarely ; 
And who should the first be that dropt, who, an’t plase ye 4 
It was my good friend, honest Corporal Casey. 


Spoken.—When tho Corporal fell, he was dowu—there 
ne lay superficially on the broad of his back, like a half 
crown. ‘ Hiwrah, corporal!” says I, “are you dead ?”— 
epeaking low and aisy for fear of waking the poor cratur— 
“are ye dead?” says I, “are ye dead an’ be buried,” 
says J—“ will ve speak?” Then I thought he was dead, 
sure enough—then I listened a bit awhile, and 1 thought 
I heard the corporal snore. “ Are ye dead?” says I, again. 
“ Ah, no,” says he, “ I’m not dead, but I’m kilt and speech- 


fess; but if you had any regard for me in my lifetime, be 


after looking for my head and piace it between my 
shoulders; as it is my only wish that I should be buried 
in a Christian-like sort of amanner.” “Then,” says-I, “as it 
is your only request, it sliall be done.” So away I trots 
all over the field in search of his napper, but not 

a head could I find of the corporal at all at all. So I 
was just returning with the good news to inform him that I 
couldn’t find it—whev where at all do you think I saw 
it? why between the tall legs of a grenadier who had just 
fell before him. Now you must know I had a pretty 
decent knowledge of the corporal’s head, for in his day he 
wore a large red, raw pimple on the top of his nose. “ Here, 
Mr. Corporal,” says I, “here’s your head.” “A plague 
on you, don’t ye know your own nose?” “A plague on 
you” says he, “’tis no head of mine.” “ Heaal or no head,” 
says I, “no other head you'll get from me ;” go I threw his 
head in his face, and away run from his 


Rub a dub, row de dow, Corporal Casey, 

Och, rub a dub, row de dow, Corporal Casey. 

And now my dear friends, I come here for to plase ye! 
After eight years’ campaigning with Corporal Casey. 


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CAMP SONG. 


WHEN the battle is v’er and the sounds of fight 
Have closed with the closing day, 
How happy around the watch-fire’s light, 
To chat the long hours away ; 
To chat the long hours away, my boy, 
And talk of the days to come, 
‘Or—a better still and a purer joy— 
To think of our far-off home. 


How many a cheek will then grow pale 
That never felt a tear! 
And many a stalwart heart will quail, 
That never quailed in fear ! 
And the breast that, like some mighty reels 
Amid the foaming sea, 
Bore high against the battle’s shock, 
Now heaves like infancy. 


And those who knew each other not, 
Their hands together steal, 

Each think of some long hallowed spot, 
And all like brothers feel : 

Such holy thoughts to all are given ; 
The lowliest has his part; 

The love of home, like love of heaven, 
Ig woven in our heart. 





CLARE’S DRAGOONS. 


WHEN, on Ramillies’ bloody field, 
The bafiled French were forced to yield, 
The victor Saxon backward reeled 
Before the charge of Clare’s Dragoons 
The flags we conquered in that fray 
Look lone in Ypres’ choir, they say ; 
We'll win them company to-day, 
Or bravely die like Clare’s Dragoons. 


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Vive la, for Ireland’s wrongs ; 
Vive la, for Ireland’s right ; 
Vive la, in battle’s throng, 
For a Spanish steel and sabre bright. 


The brave v.d lord died near the fight ; 
But for each drop he lost that night, 
A Saxon cavalier shall bite 
The dust before Lord Clare’s Dragoons. 
For never, when our spears were set, 
And never, when our sabres met, 
Could we the Saxon soldier get 
To stand the shock of Clare’s Dragoons. 
Vive la, the new brigade, 
Vive la, the old one too ; 
Vive la, the Rose shall fade 
And the Shamrock shine forever new. 


Another Clare is here to lead— 
The worthy son of such a breed ; 
The French expect some famous deed 

When Clare leads on his bold Dragoons. 
Our colonel comes from Brien’s race ; 
His wounds are in his breast and face ; 
The bearna baoghoil is still in his place, 

The foremost of his bold dragoons, ~_ 

Vive la, &c., as 2d verse. 


There’s not a man in squadron hete, 
Was ever known to flinch or fear ; 
Though first in charge and last in rear 

Have ever been Lord Clare’s Dragoons, 
But see, we'll soon have work to do, 
To shame our boasts, or prove them true, 
For hither comes the English crew 

To sweep away Lord Clare’s Dragoons. 

Vive la, &c., a8 Ist verse 


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O comrades, think how Ireland pines, 
Her exiled lords, her rifled shrines, 
Her dearest hopes, her ordered lines, 

And bursting charge of Clare’s Dragoons, 
Then fling your green flag to the sky, 
Be Limerick your battle-cry, 
And charge till blood flows fetlock high. 

Vive la, &c., as 24 rerse 





CUSHLAMACHREE. 


Dear Erin, how sweetly thy green bosom rises, 
An emerald set in the ring of the sea, 
Each blade of thy meadows my faithful heart prizes, 
Thou queen of the west, the world’s Cushlaw achree 
Thy gates open wide to the poor and the stranger; 
There smiles hospitality hearty and free ; 
Thy friendship is seen in the moment of danger, 
And the wand’rer is welcom’d with Cushlamachree, 


Thy sons they are brave, but the battle once over, 
Brotherly peace with their foes they agree, 
And the roseate cheeks of thy daughters discover 
The soul-speaking blush that says Cushlamachree, 
Then flourish forever, my dear native Erin, 
While sadly I wander an exile from thee; 
And, firm as thy mountains, no injury fearing, 
May Heaven defend its own Cushlamachree. 





DUBLIN CARMAN. 
I’m Larry McCue, a boy so true, 
I belong to the Emerald Isle; 
Your attention I crave, and I’ll chant you » stave, 
And perhaps it'll cause you to smile, 
Vm jolly and gay, the truth I say—- 
And the girls both near and far, 
Says it’s quite a thrate to take a sate, 
And a drive on my jaunting car. 


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CHORUS. 
Driving, jolting, driving, on a jaunting car; 
For when I get a fare, I drive away dull care— 
As I sit on my jaunting car, 
The reins I grip, and I crack my whip, 
And off goes my jaunting car. 


In Dublin town, of great renown, 
You'll find me on the stand ; 
On my car so nate just take a sate, 
And I'll drive through the streets so grand ; 
The sights so fine, all others outshine, 
No matter near or far, 
The reins I’ll grip, and crack my whip 
And off flies my jaunting car. 


Driving, jolting, a. 


If a girl to your mind you wish to find, 
Ould Ireland’s just the part ; 
The colleens fair, I do declare, 
Are sure to steal your heart, 
With a glance so sly and beaming eye 
As bright as any star, 
By the powers of Jove, you're sure to fall in love 
If you drive in the jaunting car. 


Driving, jolting, &. 


80 if you wish for sport, sure I’m the sort 
Can find you lots of fun ; 
I can sit on my yoke and crack a joke 
With any boy under the sun. 
I know well enough where they sell good stuff, 
And the girls behind the bar 
Can tell by my wink, what sort of drink 
Can grease the wheels of my jaunting car. 


Spoken.—Car, your honor; here you are, sir; the firs 
eer on the stand. You want a Hansom; oh, well, as yo 


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ge. not over handsome, your honor, may be you'd look 
better in a Hansom than sitting on an outside car. Are 
you gong out, ma’am? This way for Irishtown and 
Sandymount. Long life to you, Captain, don’t forget your 
own boy, sir; Yoox at the animal—the real quality blood 
that’s in him: sure his own mother won the goold cup at 
the Curragh. Get np, sir and I’ll drive you out of you 
mind; and if vou’'e a teetotaller, you need not be dry, fo 
I have a well in my car, and some beautiful springs va- 
derneath ; all I’ll ask is my fare, leaving any other lit‘le 
trifle to yourself, while ’m— _ 
Driving, jolting, &e 


DORAN’S ASS. 


One Paddy Doyle lived in Killarney ; 

He courted a girl named Biddy Toole. 
His tongue was tipped with a bit of blarney, 
The same to Paddy was’a golden rule: 

Both day and dawn she was his colleen ; 
When to himself he’d often say : 
What need I care, when she’s my drolleen, 
A coming to meet me on the way? 
Whack fol de darral ido 
Whack fol de darral lal la. 


One heavenly night in last November, 
Paddy went out to meet his love; 
What night it was I don’t remember, 
But the moon shone brightly from above. 
That day the boy had got some liquor, 
Which made his spirits light and gay; 
Arrah! what’s the use in walking quicker, 
When I know she’ll meet me on the way! 
Whack fol de Garral, &e 


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He tuned his pipes and fell a humming, 
As gently onward he did jog ; 
But fatigue and whiskey overcame him, 
So Paddy lay down upon the sod. 
He was not long without a comrade, 
One that could kick up the hay ; 
For a big jackass soon smelt out Paddy, 
And lay down beside him on the way. 
Whack fol de darral, &e. 


As Pat lay there in gentle slumbers, 
Thinking of his Biddy dear, 

He dreamt of pleasures without numbers 
A coming on the ensuing year. 

He spread his arms out on the grass, 
His spirits felt so light and gay ; 

But instead of Biddy, he gripped the ass, 
Roaring out: I have her any way. 


Whack fol de darral, &. 


He hugged and smugged his hairy messer, 
And flung his hat to worldly care ; 
Says Pat: she’s mine, and may heaven bless her, 
But oh! be me soul, she’s like a bear. 
He put his hands on the donkey’s nose, 
With that the ass began to bray ; 
Pat jumped up, and roared out: 
Who sarved me in such a way? 
Whack fol de darral, &e 


Pat ran home as fast as he could, 
At railway speed, or as fast, ’m sure. 
He never stopped a leg or foot, 
Until he came to Biddy’s door. 
By that time, twas getting morning— _ 
Down on his kness he fell to pray, 
Orying: let me in, my Biddy darling, 
’m kilt, Um murdered on the way. 


Whack fol de doen HM 


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He told her his story mighty eased, 
While she prepared a whiskey glass— 
How he hugged and smugged the hairy beast ; 
. Go along says she, ’twas Doran’s ass. 
I know it was, my Biddy darling. 
They both got married the very next day, 
But he never got back his ould straw hat, 
That the jackass ate up on the way. 
Whack fol de darral, &e. 





DENNIS MCASTER, THE IRISH SCHOOL- 
MASTER. 

THEN Dennis M’Caster, the Irish schoolmaster, 
No one could teach faster the English tongue; 

He was poet and punster, and by every youngster 
O’er the province of Munster his praises were sung. 

Rare scholars had Denny, from Cork and Kilkenny, 
From Kilbrain sure many did flock to his school, 

Where he o’er the sly ones, the Neills and O’Brians, 
And wild Irish lions, triumphant did rule. 


Spoken.—Doctor Dennis M’Caster neither taught ow 
Bell’s nor the Lancasterian system—faith, they were both 
one to him—but on a plan of his own, which he called the 
Munsterman’s, or the true Irish system. “ Master Felix 
O’Brian,” said he, “before you go down, come up and say 
your lesson, for you are my best scholar. Now, what's 
the first figure of your A B 0?” “T don’t know, sir.” “ You 
don’t know. For shame, Felix; what does my donkey 
often get to eat?” “Nothing, sir.” ‘“ Nothing, and what 
else” “Water, sir.” “ Arrah, does he get nothing but 
water toeat?” “Yes, sir, pitatee pails.” ‘“ Pitatee pails, and 
whatelse?” “Hay.” “That’sa good boy; goon.” “I 
can’t, sir.” ‘You can’t! remember you’re my head scholar, 
and tell me what bird is it that lays the honey.” “‘ Bee.” 
“ B, that’s right; then be a good boy, my honey, and go on.” 
“1 can't, sir.” “ Youcan’t! a pretty tale will be madeof my 


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head scnolar, and I can make neither head nor tail of hii 
Can't you tell me where all the salt fish comes. from ?* 
“ Yes, sir, from Judy Donovan, the fishmonger, sir.” “ And 
where else?” Irom the salt sea, sir.” “ Arrah! can’t 
you say C without the salt, as it should be?” “ Yes, sit, 
gea without salt, as it should be.” ‘ Goon, you bogtrotter.” 
‘T can’t, sir.’ You can’ t, tell me, my jewel, how often do 

flog you?” “ Every day, sir.” “ Can't yon say day alone.” 

Yes, mirven (0 on. ar 1 can’t, sir.” “ Arrah, what sex am 
Toft? « Faith, sir, I don’t know ; ; you know better than I, 
why do you ask 2” '& Because I want to know.” “ She BEX, 
sir?” “No.” “He, sir.” “K, that’s right, my boy. What’s 
next?” “I can’t tell—yes, sir, I can, F.” “Bravo! go 
on.” “T can’t, sir.” ‘ What does carman Pat say to his 
horse?” ‘‘ Gee, thunder, now.” “ Can’t you say G without 
thunder, pow?” “Yes, sir;” ‘Gee an’ no thunder now.” 
“Goon.” “I can'tisix? ye "Now, tell me how many of you 
learn at mv academy 1” “ Aich one of us.” “Can’t you 
say H, and not one of us?” “Yes, sir, aich and not one of 
us.” “ An’ by the holy poker, Tl make aich of you 
remember it, like the great actor on the stage used to say 
to the Munster man. I'll fill your bones full of H's 
(aches), and by the powers, that will be one way to make 
you a man of letters.” 


Then success to M’Caster, the Irish schoolmaster, 
For sure such a pastor the world never saw ; 

‘And long life to the dry land of th’ Emeraid island 
Faith, but I love you! och, Erin-gc-bragh. | 


Though Dan was a gen’us, I must say between ug 
He was not a Venus in shape or in air; 
For Mrs. Nature, when she made me the teacher, 
Did not for each feature take at all any care: 
His eye was a skew one, his nose was a blue one, 
His mouth was a true one from ear to ear; 
Yet vanity drove him—like many above him, 
If folks did not love him, he would sake them fear 


x. 


THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 45 


Spoken.—“ Come and go on with your lesson. What's 
next to H?” “1 don’t know.” “You don’t know! Can’t you 
tell me what vour old aunt’s got by the side of her nose?” 
«A carkuncle, sir.” “ And what else?” “A long bristle, sir.” 
‘What else?” “Oh, it’s an eye, sir.” “ Aye that’s right, 
goon.” “I can’t, sir?” “Cau’t you tell me how your mother 
opens the door?” “ Puts her finger in the hole, sir.” “ Arrah 
what does she lock it with?” “A kay with a lucky stone 
tied to it.” “Can't you say K without lucky stone?” 
«Kay, and no lucky stone.” “Go on.” “I can’t, sir.” 
‘¢W hat measure is that next the yard?” “Yard, sir; the pig- 
stve, sir.” ‘ Arrah, what letter’s that a yard and a quarter 
long?” “ An’ ell, sir.” “1, an’ by the hoakey! such a 
decent sized one required a whole sheet to write it upon.” 
“Go on: what’s next to L?” Hell, a school, sir.” “ Non- 
sense, what letter?” “I don’t know, sir.” ‘Can’t you tell 
me what your mother does with your shirts?” “ Shirts, 
ve got none, sir.” “ What does she do with your father’s 
then?” “Pawn them, sir.” “For shame, Felix, don’t 
expose your relations; she only lends them to your uncle. 
W hat does she do when she makes them?” “Hem, sir.” “M, 
that’s true; goon.” “I can’t.” “Which of my fowls lays the 
large duck eggs?” “'The cock-a-doodle-doo, sir.” “ But 
who’s cock-a-doodle’s wife?” “ Hen, sir.” “N, good; goon 
what's next ?” “I can’t say that, sir.” “You can’t! 1M brin 
it ont of you, my boy; take that thump. (Oh!) 0, 
thonght I could bring it out; now wipe your nose, and tell 
me what’s the next one?” “P,Q, sir.” “That's nght, 
my boy; always mind your P’s and Q’s, and then you may 
go and sit down to sing.” 


Success to M’Caster, &e. 


Our hero, M’Caster, the wise Irish pastor, 
A shocking disaster did meet in nis youth, 
- For, fighting a duel with Paddy O”lrowel, 
A shillelah so cruel knocked out every tooth 


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Their shillelahs were oaken, a word was not spoken, 
Till one Ieg was broken by Paddy or two; 

Pat then beat no further, for Dan halloed murther f 
And swore he was kilt from his hat to his shoe. 


Spoken.—“ Master Felix O’Brian, come and begin (ba 
end of your lesson. Where did I leave you?” “At the P’s 
and Q’s, sir.” “Well, now come back and go forwacd: 
that's the way to get on, my boy. What’s next to Q@1” 
“P sir.” “What else?” “I don’t know, sir.” “ What 
did the justice put your father in?” “The stocks, sit.” 
“And whatelse! “Thearmy, sir.” ‘And what’s the first 
letter of army?” “Ar, sir.” “Good; goon.” “Tf can't, 
gir.” ‘What is that like a pot-hook and hanger?” “'That’s 
your left-hand leg, sir.” ‘Left-hand leg, arrab! then 
what is my left-hand leg like?” “ A crooked &, sur.” “Ge 
on.” “TJ can’t, sir.” “What does your moter drink out 
of the tea-pot .«n a morning?” “ Whiskey.” “ What else 
at breakfast?” “Tea dust, sir.” ‘ Arrah! can’t you say 
tea, without dust, as it should be.” “Go ov, you son of 
a dust-man, and tell me what’s next?” “TI cau/s, sir.” ‘ You 
ean’t—who struck you just now?” “Your mutton fist, sir.” 
“ Mutton fist! and who does my mutton fist belong to?” 
“You, sir.” “U, goon.” “I can’t, sir.” “ What did the 
pig say to the Frenchman?” “We, sir.” “Och! faith, 
’twasa learned pig. Goon.” “I can’t, sir.” “What does 
your uncle knock the trees down with?” “With an axe, 
sir.” “X, goon. What's next?” “I can’t say that, sir.” 
« Why can’t you say it?” “I can’t say why, sir.” “Goon; 
perhaps you'll remember the last letter first.” “Yes, sir, 
Y, sir” “Ho! you've remembered the first at last; now 
what’s next?” “I don’t know, sir.” “You don’t. Coan 
you tell me what part of Paddy’s body I knocked a hole 
in?” ‘His head, sir.” ‘Z, that’s right, my boy, you'll 
make a clever man. Now go home, and write upon youl 
paper skull, a wise head (Y Z), whilst you sing.” 

Success to M’Caster, &c. 


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DARLING OLD STIOK. 


My name is Morgan McCarthy, from Trim! 

My relations are all dead except one, brother Jim— 
And he’s now gone soulgering to Cape Hull, 
And I expect he’s laid low with a nick in his skull! 


CHORUS. 


Let him be dead or a livin,’ 

A prayer for his soul shall be given, 

That he shall be sent home or to heaven, 
For he left me this Darling Old Stick ! 


ff this stick it could spake, it would tell you some tales, 
And batter the countenances of the O’Nales! 
It has caused bits 0’ skull to fly up in the air; 
It was the promotion ot fun at every fair. 
Lhe last time I used it ’twas on Patrick’s Day, 
Varry Fagan and I jumped into a shay ; 
We went to a fair at the side of Athloy, 
Where we danced, and when done, kissed Kate MoAI- 
voy! 
And her sweetheart went out for her cousin ; 
By the powers he brought in a dozen. 
What a daldum they’d have knocked us in, 
{f I hadn’t ’ave had this Darling Old Stick! 


War! was the word when a faction came in, 
For they pummelled me well—they stripped off to the 
skin ! 
Like a rector I stood, watching the attack, 
And the first one came up I knocked on his back ! 
Then I poked out the eye of Pat Glancy, 
For he once humbugged my sister Nancy |! 
In the meantime Miss Kate took a fancy 
To me and my innocent Stick ! 


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I smethered her sweetheart until he was black, 

Kate tipped me the wink, we were off in a th-vack ! 
We went to a house at the end of the town, 
Where we kept up our spirits by pouring some down, 
When the whiskey began to warm her, 
I got her snug up in a corner ; 
She said her sweetheart would inform on her! 

*['was there I said praise to my Stick! 


Kate she drank whiskey to such a degree 

That for her support she had tu lean upon me 5 
I said 1 would see her safe to her abode, 
"Tl vas there we fell in the middle of the road. 
Until roused by the magistrate’s orders, 
Devil a toe could we go farther, 
Surrounded by police for murder, 

Was inyself and my innocent Stick. 


When I as acquitted I jumped from the dock, 
An’ all the gay fellows around me did flock, 
They gave me a sore arm they shook my hand 80 often 
It was only for fear of seeing my own coffin! 
I went and I bought a gold ring, sirs, 
Miss Kate to the Priest I did bring, sirs— 
That night we did joyfully sing, sirs, * 
The adventures of myself and my Stick! 





DIGGING FOR GOULD. 


Darpy KeEtty below in Kilkenny did live, 

A sketch of whose character ’m going to give 5 

He was thonglt by the people a green polished rogue, 
He could wastle the whiskey, or wastle the old brogue; 
All kinds of diseases with herbs he could cure, 

He’d interpret your dreams to be certain and sure, 

By the boys of the village he was often fool’d ; 

For aslape or awake, he was dreaming of gould. 


Fol de dol, &o- 


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He had a fine open house, but the winders were broke, 

The gables were down to let out the smoke; 

Some beautiful pigs, through the wide world to range, 

Though they were thin, they were thick with the mange 

He was so neglectful of domestic affairs, 

The rats eat the bottoms all out of the chairs, 

And the wife by the husband was so overruled, 

When shé asked him for coppers, he was talking of goule 
Fol de dol, &e. 


The house thus neglected, sure nothing went right; 
When a youth of the village came to him, one night. 
A nice boy he was, his name was Dan Mac, 
And ready to fly with the duds on his back ; 
All the clothes that he had wasn’t enough 
To make him a bolster to stick on a crutch, 
And his juvenile days in a lime-kiln were schooled, 
But he used to cod Darby about finding gould. 

: Fol de dol, &e 


Says Dan: Ere last night I had a beautiful dream ; 
But bad luck to the doubt! last night I’d the saine; 
And to-day, as I dozed, after slacking some lime, 

I dreamt it again for the third and last time. 

Och, murder! says Darby, come tell us your dream, 
Same time his two eyes like rockets did gleam, 
Savs Dan: I dreamt at the castle Kilcool 

I found a jar that was crammed full of gould. 


Fol de dol, &«. 


Poor Darby a big mouth opened like a dead hake, 
Saying: You'll be a hero, just like your name-sake; 
Yow ll ride in your coach, you fortunate elf, 
While I may be in one, guing down to the hulks. 
No matter, said Darby, we must emigrate, 
So, come down at mid-night, and don’t be too Jate 
Bring some boys whose courage won’t easy be cuoled, 
And we'll dig till daylight to find all the gould. 

Fol le dol, &@ 


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yhey arrived at the castle, at about one o’clock, 

Where Dan dreamt he found all the gold in a crock, 

They all set to work with picks, shovels and spades. 

And a hole, that would swallow a house, soon was mate, 

Says Darby: Bad luck to the curse we must give, 

Or we'll be beggars as long as we live! 

Says Dan: Maya load on my back be stooled, 

For, I have bursted my breeches in digging for gould! 
Fol de dol, &e. 


The prayers availed nothing, the crock was soop found, 

Tim-Rooney he lifted it over the ground ; 

With joy Darby leaped on the back of Ned Fail, 

Like a fish from the stream with a hook in his tail, 

Says Darby: My wife won’t abuse me to-night, 

When I take home the shiners so yellow and bright ! 

Pll buy house and land about Kilcool. 

And we'll all bless the night we went digging for gould t 
Fol de dol, &e. 


The crock was then placed on Darby’s own back, 

‘Lo carry home and each man have his whack, ~ 

‘Chey arrived at the door with the gould to be sacked, 

When Mac with a spade knocked the crock into smash. 

Poor Darby, near smothered, ran in with affright ; 

His wiie jumps up to get him a light: 

When she heard Darby mourning, her passion was 
covled, 

She knew by the smell he was covered with gould! 

Fol de dol, &e. 





DEAN SWIFT GIVES A LESSON IN POLITE- 
NESS, AND GETS HIS REWARD. 

THE Dean was in his study reading, when the door was 
pushed open, and a young fellow came in, dragging a fine 
salmon by the gills, and, without saying “ by your leave” 
ox “with your leave,” he walked over and flops it acroed 


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she Dean’s knees, and says: ‘ 'There’s a fine salmon my 
_ father sent you.” “Oh, I’m very much obliged, but I’d 
be more obliged if you had just shown better manners.” 
“Well, I wish I knew how.” “Sit down here, and I'l] 
show you how to behave.” He took the fish in his hand, 
went outside, and shut the door; then he tapped, and 
heard the young fellow cry out, ‘come in;” and what 
should he see but the young monkey with his own 
spectacles on Lis nose, and pretending to read a book. 
“Please your Reverence,” says he, with a bow, “my father 
will be much obliged by your acceptance of this salon, 
which he bas just taken.” “ Your father is a respectable 
man,” says ibe urchin, taking off the spectacles, “and ?m 
sure youre a god boy; here’s half a crown for you. 
Take the fish down to the kitchen and tell the cook she’s 
to give you your dinner.” He then sprung up, took a 
pull at lis hair, and relieved the Dean of the fish. You 
may be sure the master laughed on the wrong side of his 
mouth, and took the hint. 


DICK DARLIN’, THE COBBLER. 


Ocu! my name is Dick Darlin’ the cobbler, 
My time I served down there in Kent ; 

Wid de wimmin I was always a squabbler, 
But now I’m resolved to repent. 


For twenty years I’d been a rover, 
An’ wasted the prime of my life; 

One day, I resolved to give over, 
An’ settle myself down to a wife. 


Spoken.—Yes, I got married. Now upon my conscience 
a woman is the most obstreperous and outrageous creature 
on the face of the earth. Before I was married, whiniver 
I’d go among ’em, they’d be fighting for me; and when 
I married one o’ them, in the hopes to be quiet and peac 
able, bad scran to the day she’d be aisy if she wasr 
fighting wid me. 


ng VHE FAUGH-A-RBALLAGH SONG-BOOK 


Now I'll give ye the contints uv my oath: that befsre I 
was married, there wasn’t a nicer, quieter, dacenter, ‘etther 
disposed or meeker disposition’d boy than ‘myself; but 
since I’m married bedad if I didn’t git into a bit of a fight 
now an’ then, I’d go mouldy. And never a fight iver I 
was in or heard tell of, but a woman was at the top, the 
bottom, both sides, and in the middle of it. 


My wife she was blinkin’ an’ blearin’, 
My wife she was humpy and black, 
The worst all over for swearin’, 
And her tongue is kept goin’ click clack 


Spoken.—Bad luck to me if iver 1 could tell how s 
weman’s tongue is hung at all! We all know that a 
man’s tongue is hung by one ind, but bad seran to me if I 
don’t think that a woman’s is hing be the middle, an’ no 
sooner one ind strikes the upper part of her jaw, but the 
other ind hits the lower, and there it is upper an’ lower, 
the whole day peltin’, till at last I’d have to give her a 
welt in the gob wid my last to stop her an’ thin she’d run 
out of the cellar, roarin’ watch, watch, watch! here’s this 
murder’n villin’ he’s killin’ me, he’s give me a welt in the 
gob wid his last, an’ he’s broke the collar bone of me. 

A—rew. wirrastrew! what'll I do? And thin widout . 
waitin’ for any one to tell her what to do she up wid a 
brick an’ lets drive at me. I can dodge it aisy enough 
cause I’m us’d to it; but another poor man there stanin’ 
by, and not sayin’ a word to any body, he got it plump 
in the mug; up comes the police, and walks the three of 
us off for assault and batthery, an’ hang the one go ~ 
batthered but the poor man who had nothing to do with 
it. But that’s the way of it, evil communications corrupt 
good manners. : 


But. now we are parted for iver— 
One mornin’ before it was light, 

I shov’d the old jade in a river, 
And cautiously bid her good night. 


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My troubles of wedlock bein’ over, 
This country 1 thought I would try; 

Once more I’ve become a free rover, 
An’ single I'll stop till I die. 


_Spoken.—A fellow came into my shop the other day. 
‘ Dick,” sayshe. “Sir,” saysI. “ll bet ye three dollars 
to one,” says he, ‘that I can sole three pair of boots while 
4g sole one.” “You can’t,” says 1. “ Will ye bet,” says 

e. “J wiil,” says I. “Done,” says he. ‘“ Done,” says 
I, and to work we wint. An’ afther I’d bate him, as an 
Irishman ought to do, the dirty bla’guard wouldn’t pay 
me. But may be I hadn’t satisfaction out of him; I wint 
out an’ I bate him; I bate him till I was as blind as 
a bat. I bate him till I broke rfearly all the bones in 
my body; and they had to carry me home on a shutther. 
He come to me aftherwards, an’ says he, “ you ought to 
pay me somethin’.” “Didn't I give you a practical lesson 
ip industhry? You didn’t know how much work you 
ceuld do till I brought it out uv you,” says he. Be gob! 
bat I knew how much work he hindered me from doin’. 
Bat hould on a bit; let me come across him again, if 
iver I come across him again—by my mother’s beautiful 
sex, and that’s my illigant silf, I’ keep clear uv him. 





DANDY PAT. 
COMPOSED BY WILLIAM CARLETON. 
AIR—Tommy Taylor. 
Ox! I’m ths boy called Dandy Pat, Dandy Pat; 
I was born in the town of Ballinafat, 
I’m Pat the Dandy O! 
I courted one Miss Kate Molloy, Kate Mollos ; 
She sed I was the broth av a boy! 
I’m Dandy Pat, heigho! 
V’m Dandy Pat, ochone! heigho! 
From Magherafelt tu Ballinafat, 
There’s none comes up to Dandy Pat! 


BS THE FAUGH-A-BALIL 4GH SONG-BOOK. 


My leg and foot is nate and trim, nate and trim 
The girls all cry: “ Jist look at him ! 
He’s Pat the Dandy, O!” 
My stick is med av good blackthorn, 
I’m the funniest man ivir wus born; | 
I’m Dandy Pat, heigho, 
I’m Dandy Pat, heigho! &c. Repeat 


My coat is med av Irish frieze, Irish frieze ; 
The not a one can take the prize 
From Dandy Pat, heigho! 
My hat is med av Irish felt, Irish felt. 
The hearts av all the girls I melt, 
I’m Pat the Dandy O! 
I’m Dandy Pat, heigho! &c. | Repeat. 


T tuk a walk to the Cinthral Park, Cinthral Park ; 
A nice young lady med the remark : 

“That’s Pat the Dandy, O!” 
She axed me home to take some tay, some tay; 
She sed she’d nivir go away 

From Dandy Pat, heigho ! 

From Pat the Dandy, O! &c. [ Repeat. 





ERIN GO BRAGH. 


GREEN were the fields where my forefathers dwelt, 
Oh! Erin, mavourneen, slan laght go bragh, 
Tho’ our farm it was small, yet comfort we felt, 
Oh! Erin, mavourneen, slan laght go bragh ! 
At length came the day when our lease id expire, 
And fain would I live where before hved my sire, 
But ab, well-a-day, I was forced to retire ; 
Erin, mavourneen, slan laght go bragh. 


Though all taxes I paid, yet no vote could J pasa, oh! 
Erin, mavourneen, slan laght go bragh! 

Agerandized no great man, and I felt it, alas! oh! 
Erin, mavourneen, slan laght go bragh ! 


THn rAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK, S4 


Furced from my home, yea, where I was born, 

To range the wide world, poor, helpless, fortorn ; 

T Juok back with regret, and my heart-strings are tom, 
Kinn, mavourneen, slan laght go bragh ! 


With principles pure, patriotic, and firm, 
Evin, mavourneen, slan laght go bragh ! 
Attach’a to my country, a friend to reform, 
Erin, mavourneen, slan laght go bragh! 
[ supported old Ireland, was ready to die for it, 
If her foes eer prevailed, I was well known to elgh for it; 
But my fain I preserved, and am now forced to fly for ts 
Erin, mayourneen, slan laght go bragh ! 


DEAR OLD IRELAND. 


[A writer in the Irish People, March 9th, 1867, referring te this 
song, relates the following:—‘‘ In Virginia many a time, whea 
Captain Downing sat at his tent door and led off this popular song, 
the entire Irish Brigade took up the chorus. On the night afler the 
bloody battle of Fredericksburg, the Federal army lay sleepless, and 
watchful on their arms with spirits damped by the loss of many 
gallant comrades. To cheer his brother officers, Captain Downing 
sang his favorite song. The chorus of the first stanza was taken 
up by his gallant regiment; next by ‘The Brigade;’ next by the 
division ; then by the entire line of the army for six miles along the 
river, and when the Captain ceased, it was but to listen with un- 
definable feelings to the chant, that came like an echo from the 
Confederate lines on the opposite shore, of 

‘Dear old Ireland! brave old Ireland ! 
Ireland! boys, hurrah !’’’] 


Deep in Canadian woods we’ve met, 
From one bright island flown ; 
Great is the land we tread, but yet 
Our hearts are with our own, 
And ere we leave this shanty small, 
While fades the Autumn day, 
We'll toast old Ireland! 
Dear old Ireland! 
Ireland! boys, 
Hurrah ! 


THE Fs JGH-A-BAL=3GH SONG-BOOK. 


We've heard her fau’ts a hundred times, 
The new ones and the old, 
In songs and sermons, rants and rhymes 
Enlarged some fifty-fold. 
But take them all, the great and smal} 
And this we’ve got to say :— 
Here’s dear old Ireland ! 
Good old Ireland ! 
Ireland! boys, 
Hurrah ! 


We know that brave and good men tried 
To snap her rusty chain, 
That patriots suffered, martyrs died, 
And all, ’tis said, in vain; — 
But no, boys, no! a glance will show 
How far they’ve won their way, 
Here’s good old Ireland! 
Lov’d old Ireland! 
Ireland! boys, 
Hurrah ! 


We've seen the wedding and the wake, 
The pattern and the fair ; 
The stuff they take, the fun they make 
And the heads they break down there, 
With a loud “hurroo” and a “ phillalo” 
And a thundering “ clear the way,” 
Here’s gay old Ireland! 
Dear old Ireland! 
Ireland! boys, 
Hurrah. 


And well we know, 1m tne coo: grey eves 
When the hard day’s work is o’er, 

How soft and sweet are the words that greet 
The friends who meet once more: 


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With “ Mary Machree!” and “ My Pat Tishe! ' 
And “ My own heart night and day Pe 
Ah, fond old Ireland f 
Dear old Ireland ! 
Ireland! boys, 
Hurrah ! 


And happy and bright are the groups that pass 
For their peaceful homes for miles, 
O’er fields and roads and hills to mass, 
When Sunday morning smiles; 
And deep the zeal their true hearts feel, 
When low they kneel and pray ; 
Oh, dear old Ireland! 
Blest old Ireland ! 
Ireland! boys, 
Hurrah ! 


But deep in Canadian woods we've met, 
And never may see again 
The dear old isle where our hearts are set, 
And our first fond hopes remain | 
But come, fill up another cup ; 
And with every sup let’s say— 
Here’s lov’d old Ireland !— 
Good old Ireland ! 
Ireland! boys, 
Hurrah ! 





ERIN’S LOVELY HOME. 


Wuen [ -vas young and in my prime, my age just twenty 
one, 

I acted 23 a servant unto a gentleman ; 

I served him true and honest, and very well, it’s known, 

But in cruelty he banished me from Erin’s Lovely ELome. 


DS THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 


For what he did banish me I mean to let you hear: 

I own I loved his daughter, and she loved me as dear, 
She had a large fortune, and riches I had none, 

And that’s the reason I must go from Erin’s Lovely Homa 


"Twas in her father’s garden, all in the month of June, 

We were viewing of those flowers all in their youthful 
bloom ; 

She said, “ My dearest William, if with me you will roam, 

We'll bid adieu to all our friends, in Erin’s Lovely Home” 


I gave consent that very night along with her to roam, 

From her father’s dwelling—it proved my overthrow ; 

The night was bright; by the moonlight we both set of 
alone, 

Thinking to get safe away from Erin’s Lovely Home. 


When we came to Belfast, by the break of day, 

My love, she then got ready our passage for to pay; 

Five thousand pounds she counted down, saying “This shal’ 
be your own, 

But do not mourn for those we’ve left in Erin’s Lovely 
Home.” 


‘Tis of our sad misfortune I mean to let you hear, 

"T'was in a few hours after, her father did appear, 

He marched me back to Homer jail in the county of 
Tyrone, 

And there I was transported from Erin’s Lovely Home. 


When I heard my sentence, it grieved my heart full sore, 
But parting frym my true-love it grieved me ten times 
more. ! 
I had seven links upon my chain, for every link a year, 
Before I can return again to the arms of my dear. | 


THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. og 


While I lay under sentence, before I sailed away, 

My love, she caine into the jail, and thus to me did say: 

“Cheer up your heart, don’t be dismayed, for I’ll nut you 
disown, 

Until you do return again to Erin’s Lovely Home.” 


EMMETT. 


THOUGH the minstrel of Erin who chanted his fame, 
Hath said of her martyr, “Oh! breathe not his name! ‘ 
Yet, what bard of Ierne the wild harp could wake, 

And forgot the young hero who died for her sake ? 


Though the page of her history holds to our view 
Many names of the valiant, the fearless, the true, 

Yet sad memory turns away to recall 

The brightest, the noblest, the purest of all. fe 


Oh, his was the heart that to fear was unknown, 
When the loud trump of Freedom through Erin was blown 
How far calmer his fetterless sleep in the grave, 

Than the clank of the chains on the limbs of a slave. 


Thougk. Columbia’s first chieftain, and Brutus, and Tell, 
Are names to awaken bright Liberty’s spell, — 

Yet undimmed by its lustre should cloudless be seen 
‘ke Patriot Chief of the Standard of Green. 


And when the proud Sunburst of Erin, unfurled, 
Proclainiug her free, shall illumine the world, 
Emblazoned shall be on its folds waving wide 
The name of our hero, her martyr, her pride. 


THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK | 


FRENCH AND ENGLISH. 
BY T. HOOD. 
A1rR—Bob and Joan. 


NEVER go to France, 

Unless you know the lngo— 
If you do, like me, 

You will repent, by jingo! 
Staring like a fool, 

And silent asa mummy, 
There I stood alone, 

A nation with a dummy. 


Never go, &@ 


Chaises stand for chairs, 

They christen letters Bullies, 
They call their mothers mares, 

And all their daughters fillies 
Strange it was to hear, 

I'll tell you what’s a good un, 
They call their leather queer, 

And half their shves are wooden. 


Never go, &@ 
Rigus I had to make, 


‘or every little notion— 

Limbs all going like 

A telegraph in motion. 
For wine I reel’d about, 

To show my meaning fully, 
And make a pair of horns, 

To ask for “ beef and bully.” 

Never go, &a, 


Moo! I cried for milk; 

I got my sweet things snuggei—— 
Whe. I kiss’d J vannette, 

"T'was underetoud fur sugar. 


THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 6) 


If I wanted bread, 
My jaws I set a-going; 
And ask’d for new-laid eves 
By clapping hands and crowing. 
Never go, &e. 


If I wish’d to ride, 
Vl tell you how I got it— 
On my stick astride, 
I made believe to trot it. 
Then their cash was strange, 
It bored me ev’ry minute, 
Now here’s a hog to change, 
How many sows are in it ? 
Never go, &. 





THE FAIR HILLS OF IRELAND. 


A PL¥rwreous place is Ireland for hospitable cheer, 
Uileacan dubh O! 
Where the wholesome fruit is bursting from the yellow 
barley-ear ; 
Uileacan dubh O! 
There is honey in the trees where her misty vales expand, 
And her forest paths, in summer, are by falling waters 
fanned ; 
There is dew at high noontide there, and springs ?’ the 
yellow sand, 
On the fair hills of holy Ireland. 


Curled he is and ringletted, and plaited to the knee, 
Uileacan dubh O! 
Facb captain who comes sailing across the Irish sea, 
Uileacan dubh O! 
And I will make my journey, if life and health but stand, 
Unto that pleasant country, that fresh and fragrant 
strand, 


&2 THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-ROOK. 


And leave your nea braveries, your wealth and high 
command, : 


For the fair hills of holy Ireland. 


Large and profitable are the stacks upon the ground, 
Uileacan dubh O! 

The butter and cream do wondrously abound, 
Uileacan dubh O! 

The cresses on the water and the sorrels are at hand, 

And the cnckov’s calling daily his note of music bland, 

And the buld thrush sings so bravely his song i’ the 

forests grand, 
On the fair hills of holy Ireland. 





FORTUNE IN THE FIRE. 


&weEET Norah, come here, and look into the fire, 
Perhaps in its embers good luck we may see; 
Don’t come too near, or your glances so burning, 
Will put it clean ont, like the sunbeams, machree. 
Sust look ’tween the bars, where the black sod is smoking, 
There’s a sweet little valley, with rivers and trees, 
And a honse on the bank guite as good as the squire’s, 
Whe knows but some day we’ll have something like 
these— 
Who knows but some day we'll have something like 
these ? 


And now there’s a coach with four galloping horses, 
A coachman to drive, and a footman behind, 
That shows that some day we will keep a fine carriage, 
And fly through the street . the speed of the wind. 
As Dermot was speaking, the rain drops came hissing 
Down thro’ the wide chimney, the fire went out; 
While mansion and river, and hoises and carriage, 
All vanished in smoke-wreaths that whirl’d about, 
All vanished in smoke-wreatks that whirl’d ahout 


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Thon Norah to Dermot this speech softly whispered, 
* Ywere betser to do than to idly desire; 

And one fittie cot by the roadside is better 
Than a palace with servants and coach in the fire, 
Than apalace with servants and coach in the fire.” 


“GOD SAVE IRELAND!” 
AirR—Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys are marching, 


HicH upor the gallows tree 
Swung the noble-hearted three, 

By the vengeful tyrant stricken in their bloom ; 
But they met him face to face, 
With the courage of their race, 

And they went with souls undaunted to their doom. 
“God save Ireland!” said the heroes ; 
“God save Ireland!” said they all: 
“Whether on the scaffold high 
Or the baitle-field we die, 

Ob, what matter, when for Erin dear we fall!” 


Girt around with cruel foes, 
Still the spirit proudly rose, 
For they thought of hearts that loved them, far and neag 
: Of the millions true and brave 
O’er the ocean’s swelling wave, 
And the friends in holy Ireland ever dear. 
“God save Ireland!” said they proudly ; 
*‘God save Ireland!” said they all: 
“Whether on the scaffold high,” && 


Climbed they up the rugged stair, 
Rung their voices out in prayer, 
hen with England’s fatal cord around them cast, 
Close beneath the gallows tree, 
Kissed like brothers lovingly, 
True to home and faith and freedom to the last. 


v4 THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 


“God save Ireland!” prayed they loudly ; 
“God save Ireland!” said they all: 
“Whether on the scaffold high,” &a 


Never till the latest day 
Shall the memory pass away 
Of the gallant lives thus given for our land ; 
But on the cause must go, 
Amidst joy, or weal, or woe, 
Till we’ve made our isle a nation free and grand. 
“God save Ireland!” say we proudly ; 
“God save Ireland!” say we all: 
“Whether on the scaffold high,” de, 





GARRYOWEN. 


Let Bacchus’ sons be not dismayed, 

But join with me each jovial blade ; 

Come booze and sing, and lend your aid 
To help me with the chorus: 


CHORUS. 
Instead of Spa we'll drink brown ale, 
And pay the reckoning on the nail; 
No man for debt shall go to a gaol 
From Garryowen in glory! 


We are the boys that take delight in 
Smashing the Limerick lights when lighting, 
Through the streets like sporters fighting, 
And tearing all before us. 
Instead, &e 


We'll break windows, we'll break doors. 
The watch knock down by threes and fours ; 
Then let the doctors work their cures, 
And tinker up our bruises 
Instead, &o. 


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We'll beat the bailiffs, out of fun, 
We'll make the mayor and sheriffs run ; 
We are the boys no man dares dun, 
If he regards a whole skin. 
Instead, é&e. 


Our hearts so stout have got us fame, - 
For soon ’tis known from whence we ce me: 
Where’er we go they dread the name 
Of Garryowen in glcry. 
I. stead, &a 


Johnny Cornell’s tall and straight, 
And in his limbs he is complate ; 
« He'll pitch a bar of any weight, 
From Garryowen to Thomond Gate. 


Ti siead, &o. 


Garryowen is gone to wrack 
Since Johnny Connell went to Cork, 
Though Darby O’Brien leapt over the ack 
In spite of all the soldiers. 
].stead, &o, 


HANDY ANDY. 

AIR—Billy Barlow. 
How are yez, me friends, ?—sure I hope yca’re al] wellex 
My cruel misfortunes to you I will tell: 


I was born on a Friday, that ill-omened day— 
“ He’s a blundering blackguard!” my father did say. 


CHORUS. 
Och hone! now ain’t it a shame 
To be called Handy Andy, when Andrew’s my namef 


66 THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 


My blunder the first, I remember it yet— 

I was sent to the post-office, letters to get: 

“ What name?” axed the clerk, as I looked at him sly; 

“'That’s none o’ yer business, ye blackguard!” says I. 
Och hone, &e. 


One morning there lay about two feet o’ snow ; 
Says my boss, “You must clear off the pavement, ye 
know.” 
He meant but the snow, but I cleaned it complete, 
By shovelling the bricks wid the snow in the street. 
Och hone, &e. 


One night I was waiter at a party so nice, 
They tould me to put the champagne in the ice: * 
I opened each bottle, and thought it all right— 
In the ice-water poured it, and ruined it quite. 
Och hone, &e. 
Says they, “ Ye young stupid, see what you have done! 
You've spoiled our champagne, likewise all our fan: 
Go, bring in soda-water !”—Says I, “ Enough xaid,”— 
Bvap and water I brought, which they threw at :nvy head 
Och Lene, &e. 


Next I hired with a famner to work by the year, 
One day he says, “Give the cows corn in the ear.” 
With shelled corn I filled up the ears of the cows, 
When the farmer he kicked me straight out o’ the house. 
Och hone, &e. 
One day a man led his horse up to a fence ; 
“Keep an eye on him,” says he—“T’ll give ye six 
pence.” ! 
But he never paid me, ’cause the horse took affrighi, 
Though my eye was on him till he run out o’ sight. 
Och hong, &o. 


THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 6% 


Then a footman I was, to attend to the door, _ 
Where I had to tell lies as I ne’er did before: 

“Ts yer masther at home?” one wud ax wid a grin ; 
“No, he tould me to tell yez he wasn’t jist in.” 


Och hone, sve. 


At last, then, I says to myself, “‘ Andy dear, 

If ye wudn’t be spiled, ye had betther lave here.” 

Now I work at railroading and diggin’ canawl— 

An’ when grog-time comes round, I am there at roll-call | 
Och hone, é&a. 





HAIL! COLUMBIA. 


Hart, Columbia! happy land! 
Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band ! 
Who fought and bled in freedom’s cause, 
Who fought and bled in freedom’s cause, 
And when the storm of war was gone, 
Enjoy’d the peace your valor won. 
Let Independence be our boast, 
Ever mindful what it cost ; 
Ever grateful for the prize, 
Let its altar reach the skies. 
Firm—united—let us be 
Rallying round our liberty 5 
As a band of brothers join’d, 
Peace and safety we shall find. 


ammortal patriots, rise once more ; 

_ Defend your rights, defend your shore; 

Let no rude foe, with impious hand, 

Let no rude foe, with impious hand, 

Invade the shrine where sacred lies, 

Of toil and blood the well-earned prize. 
While offering peace sincere and just, 
In heaven we place a manly trust 
That truth and justice will prevail. 
And every scheme of bondage fail. 

Firm—united, & 


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THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 


Sound, sound, the trump of fame! 
Let Washington’s great name 
Ring through the world with loud applause, 
Ring through the world with loud applause, 
‘Let every clime to freedom dear, 
Listen with a joyful ear. 
With equal skill, and godlike power, 
He govern’d in the fearful hour 
Of horrid war; or guides, with ease, 
‘The happier times of honest peace. 
Firm—united, &e 


Behold the chief who now commands, 
Once more to serve his country stands— 

The rock on which the storm will beat: 

The rock on which the storm will beat: 

But arm’d in virtue, firm and true, 

His hopes are fix’d on heaven and you. 
When hope was sinking in dismay, 
And glooms obscured Columbia’s day, 
His steady mind, from changes free, 
Resolved on death or liberty. 

Firm—united—let us be 
Rallying round our liberty ; 
As a band of brothers join’d, 
Peace and safety we shall find. 


IRELAND. 


Arr—Kathleen Mavourneen. 
fxr, sweer Erin! the halo of glory, 
That hangs on the brow of thy every green hill, 
As it falls on the page of thy fame-written story, 
Reflects a warm glow on thy loveliness still. 
Oh, well may thy children to madness adore thee ; 
Thy bards to recount thy rich beauties, despair— 
When tbere is not a star that at midnight shines o’er thee, 
But twinkles with joy to stand sentinel there. 


THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 65 


Oh, who that has heard the loud wail of thy sorrow, 
But yearns, to the monrner, some balm to impart f 

Oh, who that has shared thy wild mirth but would borrew 
The charin that can kindle such joy to the heart? 

And for music! oh, who that has once heard the numbers 
Set free to the winds by the magic of Moors, 

But exults that the spell which encircled its slumbers, 


And chilled the sweet Harp of his country, is o’er ? 


If it be but a fable that, far in thy mountains, 
Deep hidden by fairies lie treasures untold— 

Oh, ’tis but to appeal to thy heart’s open fountain, 
To find them o’erflown with—better than gold! 

Land of brave sons and of light-hearted daughters, 
Smooth may the stream of thy destiny be! 

“ First flower” mayst thou bloom’on the breast of the watera, 
“Hirst gem” mayst thou shine on the home of the soa! 





IRISH HEARTS FOR THE LADIES, 


OnE day Madam Nature was busy, 
Bright Venus beside her was seated, 
She looked till her head was quite dizzy, 

She long’d till the job was completed : 
I’m making a heart, cried the goddess, 

For love and its joys all my trade is, 
Not a heart for a stays or a hodice, 

But an Irishman’s heart for the ladies, 


She bound it all round with good nature ; 
"T'was tender and soft aa the dove sir ; 
"T'was sprinkled with drops of the crvature ; 
: "T'was stutled too with large lumps of love, alg, 
"T'was pure as the stream of the Shanuan, 
As warm, too, as roasted potatoes, 
And just like « Lall from a cannon, 
Is an Iiishman’s heart for the ladies. 


" 


THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 


Then speak, ye deluders so pretty, 

Your own silver tongues tell the story, 
That Irishmen melt you to pity, 

For they are the boys that adore ye; 
In love and in war we’re so frisky, 

Nor of French, Dutch, or Yankee, afraid 18, 
We've lips for our girls and our whiskey, 

And tight Irish hearts for the ladies. 





THE BAY OF BISOAY, 0! 


Loup roars the dreadful thunder, 
The rain a deluge show’rs 
The clouds were rent asunder, 
By lightning’s vivid pow’rs. 
The night both drear and dark, 
Our poor devoted bark, 3 
Till next day, 
There she lay, 
In the Bay of Biscay, O! 


Now dash’d upon the billow, 
Our op’ning timbers creak, 
Fach fears a wat’ry pillow, 
None stop the dreadful leak ! 
To cling to slipp’ry shrouds 
Each breathless seaman crowds, 
As she lay, 
"Till the day, 
In the Bay of Biecay, O! 


At length the wish’d-for morrow 
Broke through the hazy sky,—- 
Absorb’d in silent sorrow, 
Each heav’d a bitter sigh; 


aHE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 71 


The dismal wreck to view, 
Struck horror to the crew; 
As she lay, 
On that day, 
In the Bay of Biscay, O! 


Her yielding timbers sever, 
Her pitchy seams are rent, 
When heav’n, all bounteous ever, 
Its bounteous mercy sent. 
A sail in sight appears, 
_ We hail her with three cheers; 
Now we sail, 
With the gale, 
From the Bay of Biscay, O! 





IRISHMEN ARE NOT AFRAID TO FIGHT. 
AirR—Caroline of Edinburgh Town. 


OLD Eneanp oft has boasted of her valiant fighting mea, 

That when they met their enemies they beat them o’e 
again ; 

But still she calls on Irish boys whene’er she’s in a plighs, 

For Irishmen, she’s well aware, are not afraid to fight. 


When in the Revolution of blest America, 

The patriots fought for their homes and England lost bes 
swar 

The rising of the Colonies gave Johnny Bull a fright, 

He loudly called on Irishmen to aid him in the fight. 


And in the year of "Eighteen Twelve, America once more 

Gave Britain such another scare, the Lion he did roar; 

Says Johnny Bull, “I am not sure who’s in the wrong o 
right, 


But, Erin’s Sons, I call on vou to help me in the fight.” 


“sg THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 


And when the Indian Sepoys spread desolation o er, 

Ther England in her trials call’d on Irishmen once more; 

The dusky rascals conquered were, and scattered left and 
right, 

For Irishmen, as usual, were foremost in the fight. 


And when the growl of Russia’s Bear was borne upon the 
air, 

And for the British Lion not a penny seemed to care; 

Says Johnny Bull, “ I am not scared, I’l1 soon put him 
to flight, 

For haven’t I got jolly Irish boys, who ne’er refused t 
fight?” 


Then when in Abyssinia the campaign had begun, 

Old England sent an army out with cannon, sword, and 
gun 

The dusky monarch Theodore was soon put out of sight, 

For, to his cost, the Irish boys were foremost in that fight. 


Old England in her hour of need, whenever it has been, 
Has ever placed her greatest trust in boys who wear the 
reen 3 
Although she does, in time of peace, treat Ireland with a 
slight 
She knows too well that Irishmen are not afraid to fight. 


Now let the tyrant warning take, if le would keep his 
throne, 

Nor dare resist the Irish boys whose valor he has known; 

For Ireland must and shall be free, each son will show his 
might, 

And sien the hour has come you'll find each Irishmar 
wal fight. 


THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 43 


IRELAND WILL YET BE FREER. 
A1R—Liberty Tree. 
Lert tyrants exult, and their mandates proclaim, 
Voeir sceptres with iron hands sway ; 
Oppression the Irish heart never can tame, 
Noi drive hope of freedom away. 
The yoke may be heavy and firm in its place, 
The fevers secure all may be; 
But blood will wash out this most shameful disgrace, 
And Ireland ere long shall be free. 


The day may be distant—perhaps it is near, 
When freedom shall dawn on our land, 

When Ireland uo longer a tyrant need fear, 
Her rights she will seek and demand. 

Her fields, now deserted, shall blossom once more, 
Her ships will skim over the sea; 

The hirelings of England be hurled from our shore, 
And Ireland will truly be free. 


Then toast our fair Island, my countrymen all, 
“Success to her struggle so nigh ; ” 

ffer sons will spring forth at the first trumpet call, 
And battle fur freedom, or die! 

Then when we have conquered and peace smiles aga, 
Let this our grand toast ever be: 

“Confusion to tyrants wherever they reign,” 
And Ireland shall ever be free ! 





IRELAND’S REDEMPTION, 
Atr—Limerick Races. 
Tz people are around, all eager for the fight, sirs, 
Awaiting the great day, and the forthcoming light, sire, 
Hark! hark! ’tis Freedom’s voice, and Irishmen obey it, 
Ont country must be freed, no longer we'll delay it. 


THE FAUGH-A-LALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 


Then drink to Erin’s cause 
And fill your glasses higher, 
Confusion to our foes, 
They soon will feel our fire. 


Our foes are getting wise, 
Politically scheming ; 
We'll count it’ but as naught, 
They will not find us dreaming, 
They’ve waited quite too long— 
Denied us all our rights, sirs ; 
No compromises now, 
For Irishmen mean fight, sirs. 
Then here’s to freedom’s cause, 
May Ireland soon be free, sirs, 
And British rulers, knaves, 
Be sent into the sea, sirs. 


They execute our men 

Who true in their desires, 
Fight for their native land, 

To emulate their sires. 
The day will surely come, 

When such deeds will be punished, 
Oh, grasping tyrant, pause, 

Quite oft we have admonished. 
Old Ireland shall be free, 

In spite of England’s power, 
Then every Irishman 

Be ready at the hour. 


Let other nations see : 
That we deserve our freedom; 
Our men will not retreat, 
But follow where we 'ead them, 


ell Bbc 


THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 36 


And when the foe is met, 
And should he make a stand, eirs, 
He'll find that Irish boys 
Strike with a heavy hand, sirg, 
Then toast our Island, boys, 
Uld Ireland forever ; 
And haste the day when from 
Great Britain we shal! sever. 





I WOULD NOT DIE. 
SY THOMAS FRANCIS MEAGHEF 


I wovLp not die in this bright he , 
While Hope’s sweet stream is f wing; 
I would not die while Youth’s gay flower 
In springtide pride is glowing. 
The path I trace in fiery dreams 
For manhood’s flight, to-morrow, 
Oh, let me tread, ’mid those brigut gleams 
Which souls from Fame will vorrow. 
I would not die! I would not die! 
In Youth’s bright hour of pleasure ; 
I would not leave, without a e¢h, 
The dreams, the hopes I treasure ! 


I set young seeds in earth to-day, 
While yet the sun was gushing, 
And shall I pass, ere these, away, 
Nor see the flowerets blushing ? 
Are these young seeds, when earth looks fair, 
To rise with fragrance teeming, 
And shall the hand that placed them there 
Lie cold when they are gleaming ? 
I would not die! I would not die! 
In Youth’s bright hour of pleasure ; 
I would not leave, without a sigh, 
The dreams, the hopes I treasure 


76 THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 


JUDGE NOT A MAN. 


JupcE not a man by the cost of his clothing, 
Unheeding the life-path that he may pursue ; 
Or, oft yowll admire a heart that needs loathing, 
And fail to give honor where honor is due. 
The palms may be hard, the fingers stiff-jointed, 
The coat may be tatter’d, the cheek worn wita cears 
But greater than kings are labors anointed: 
You can’t judge a man by the coat that he wears. 
But greater than kings, &e. 


Give me the man, as a friend and a neighboz, 
Who toils at the loom, the spade, or the plough, 
Who wins his diploma of manhood by labour, 
And purchases wealth by the sweat of his brow. 
And that man shall be found ’mid the close ranks of 
labor, 
And be known by the work which his mdustry rears ; 
And the chiefdom when won shall be dear to his labor, 
And we'll honor the man whatever he wears. 
But greater than kings, &. 


Judge of a man by the work he is doing, 
Speak of a man as his actions demand, 
Watch well the-path that each is pursuing, 
And let the most worthy be chief in the land. 
Why should the broadcloth alone be respected, 
And the man be despised who in fustian appears ? 
While the angels in heaven have their limbs unproteo 
ted, 
You can’t judge a man by the coat that he wears. 
But greater than kings, & 


a 


THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 17 


LIMERICK RACES. 


I’u a simple Irish lad, I’ve resolved to see somé fun, sirs, 

_ So, to satisfy my mind, to Limerick town I come, sirs ; 

Oh, murther! what a precious place, and what a charming 
city, 

Where the boys are all so free, and the girls are all s 
pretty ! 


CHORUS. 
Musha ring a ding a da 
Ri too ral laddy Oh! 
Musha ring a ding a da 
Ri too ral laddy Oh! 


Tt was on the first of May, when I began my rambles, 
When everything was there, both jaunting cars and 


gambols ; 
I locked along the road, what was lined with smiling 
faces, 


All driving off ding-dong, to go and see the races. 
Musha ring a ding # da, &o 


So then I was resolved to go and see the race, sirs, 

And on a coach and four I neatly took my place, sirs, 

When a chap bawls out “behind!” and the coachman 
dealt a blow, sirs, 

Faith, he hit me just as fair as if his eyes were in his poll 
girs. Musha ring a ding a da, &c. 


So then I had to walk, and make no great delay, sirs, 

Until I reached the course, where everything was gay, 
Sirs : 

It’s then I spied a wooden house, and in the upper story, 

The band struck up a tune, called “Garryowen and 
Glory.” Musha ring a ding a da, &c, 


78 THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOUK. 


There was fiddlers playing jigs, there was lads and laastea 
dancing, 

And chaps upon their nags, round the course sure they 
were pranciug, 

Some was drinking whiskey-punch, while others bawl’d 


out gaily, 
‘Hurrah then for the shamrock green, and the splinter of 
shillelah.” Musha ring a ding a da, &c. 


There were betters to and fro, to see who would win the 
race, Sirs, 
And one of the sporting chaps of course came up to me, 


Sirs ; 
Says he “I'll bet you fifty pounds, and I’ll put it down 
this minute,” 2 
«Ah, then ten to one,” says I, “the foremost horse will 
win it.” Musha ring a ding a da, &e. 


When the players came to town, and a funny set was 
they 

I paid my two thirteens to go and see the play. 

They acted kings and cobblers, queens, and everything se 


ailv 
But I found myself at Lome when they struck up “Paddy 
Carey.” Musha ring a ding a da, &e. 





LIMERICK IS BEAUTIFUL 


Limerick is beautiful, 
As everybody knows, 
The river Shannon, full of fish, 
Through that city flows ; 
But ’tis not the river or the fish, 
That weighs upon my mind, 
Nor with the town of Limerick 
I’ve any fault to find. 
Ochone, ochone. 


THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BUQK. 72 


The girl I love is beautiful, 
Atd soft-eyed as the fawn, 
Bhe lives in Garryuwen, 
And is called the Colleen Bawa 
And proudly as that river flows 
Through that famed city, 
As proudly and without a word 
That colleen goes by me. 
Ochone, ochone. 


If I was made the Emperor 
Of Russia to command, 

Or Julius Cesar, or the 
Lord Lieutenant of the land, 

I'd give my plate and golden store, 
I’d give up my army, 

The horses, the rifles, and the foot, 
And the Royal Artillery. 

Ochone, ochone, 


I'd give the crown from off my head, 
My people on their knees, 

I'd give the fleet of sailing ships 
Upon the briny seas; 

A beggar I would go to bed, 
And happy rise at dawn,— 

If by my side for my sweet bride 
I had found my Colleen Bawn, 

Ochone, ochone. 





LATHER AND SHAVE. 


It was in this city not far from this spot, 

Where 2 barber he opened a snug little shop; 
He was silent and sad, but his smile was so sweet 
That he pulled every body out of the street, 


80 ’ THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 


CHORUS. 


With his lather and shave ’ em, lather and shave 'em, 
Lather and shave ’em, frizzle ’em—bum. 


One horrid bad custom he thought he would stop— 

That no one for credit should come to his shop ; 

So he got him a razor full of notches and rust, 

To shave the poor fellows who came there for trust. 
With his lather and shave, &e. 


One day a poor Irishman passed by that way, 

Whose beard had been growing for many a day ; 

He looked at the barber and put down his hod: 

“ Will you trust me a shave for the pure love of God?” 
With his lather and shave, &e. 


Walk in,” says the barber, “sit down on that chair, 
T’ll soon thaw your beard off right down to a hair.” 
So his lather he spread over Paddy’ s big chin, 
And with his trust razor to shave did begin. 
With his lather and shave, &o. 


“Och! murder!” savs Paddy, “now what are you doing ! 
Leave off wid your tricks or me jaws you will ruin. 
Faith, nsw how would you like to be shaved with a saw | 
Be the powers you'll pull every tooth out 0 me jaw.” 

With his lather and shave, &o. 


Still, still,” says the barber, “and don’t make a din 5 

With moving your jaws Ill be cutting your chin.” 

“ Not cut but sawed! Och, that razor you’ve got, 

Bure it would’nt cut butter if it wasn’t made het.” 
With his lather and shave, &e, 


PHE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 8} 


* Now lave off yer tricks and don’t shave any more!” 
And Paddy he bolted straight out of the door. 
Crying “ Ye may lather and shave all ver friends till yer 
sic 
But be Jabers I'd rather be shaved with a brick.” 
With his lather and shave, &e., 


Not long after that Pat was passing the door, 

When a jackass he set up a terrible roar. 

“Och murther,” says Paddy, “just list to yon knave, 

He’s givin’ 80m poor fellow a love-o7-God shave”? 
With his lather and shave, & 





MY HEART'S IN OLD IRELAND. 


My bark on the billow dash’d gloriously on, 

And glad were the notes of the sailor-boy’s song ; 

Yet sad was my bosom and bursting with woe, 

For my heart’s in old Irelaud wherever I go, 
Oh! my heart’s in uvld Ireiand wherever I go. 


More dear than the flowers that Italy yields, 
Are the red-breasted daisies that spangle thy fields, / 
The shamrock, the hawthorn, the white blossom sloe, 
For my heart’s in old Ireland wherever I go, 

Oli! my heart’s, &o. 


The shores they look ‘lovely, yet cheerless and vain 
B}50m the lilies of France, and the olives of Spain; 
When I think of the fields where the wild daisies grow, 
‘Then my heart’s in old Ireland wherever I go, 

Oh! my heart’s, &. 


The lilies and roses abandon the plains, 
Though the summer’s gone by, still the shamrock remainga, 
Like a friend in misfortune it blossoms o’er the snow : 
For my heart’s in old Ireland wherever I go, 

Oh! my heart’s, &e, 


62 THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 


I sigh and I vow, if e’er I get home, 
No more from my dear native cottage I'll roam: 
The harp shall resound, and the goblet shall flow, 
For my heart’s in old Ireland wherever I go, 

Oh! my heart’s, &e 





MOTHER, HE’S GOING AWAY. 
BY SAMUEL LOVER. 


Mother. 
Now, what are you crying for, Nelly? 
Don’t be blubberin’ there like a fool !— 
With the weight o’ the grief, ‘faith I tell you, 
You'll break down the three-legged stool. 
{ suppose, now, you're crying for Barney, 
But don’t b’lieve a word that he’d say, 
He tells nethin’ but big lies and blarney— 
Sure you know how he sarved poor Kate Kearney== 


Daughter. 
But, mother— 


Mother. : 
Oh, bother! 


Daughter. 
But, mother, he’s going away 3 
And I dreamt th’ other night, 
Of his ghost all in white— 
Oh, mother, he’s going away! 
Mother. 
If he’s goin away, all the betther— 
Bless’d hour when he’s out of your sight! 
There’s one comfort you can’t get a letther,—— 
For yiz neither can read or can write. 
Sure ’twas only last week you protested, 
Since he coorted fat Jinny M’Cray, 
That the sight of the scamp you detested ; 
With abuse, sure, your tongue never rested— 


THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK, to] 


Daughter. 

But, mother— 

: Mother. 

Oh, bother! 

Daughter. 

But, mother, he’s going away, 
And I dream of his ghost 
Walking round my bedpost— 

Oh, mother, he’s going away. 





MICKEY THE CARMAN. 
AtR—Low Backed Car. 


L’m Mickey McCue, a boy so thrue, 
I belong to the Imerald Isle, 
And if ye will listen, your eyes will glistom, 
And your faces will bear a smile. 
There’s not one so merry, from Cork to Derry, 
The ladies, near and far, 
Suy it’s a thrate to take a sate 
On my Irish jauntin’ car. 
Dhrivin’—joultin’-— gallopin’— 
On iy jauntin’ car. 
When I get a fare 
I dhrive away care, 
As I dhrive my jauntin’ oar. 


In Dublin city, so nate and pretty, 
I used to take my stand ; 
On my car so nate ’twas quite a thrate 
To dhrive thro’ the streets so grand. 
The sights so fine in summer-time, 
I’d dhrive you near or far— 
The reins I grip, I crack my whip, 
Off goes my jauntin’ car. 


Dhrivin’, &, 


84 THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 


If a girl to your mind you want to find, 
Ould Ireland is the part— 

The colleens fair, I do declare, 
Are sure to stale your heart. 

With a glance so sly, and beaming eye, 
As bright as any star— 

Be the powers above, you're shure to love, 
If you go on a jauntin’ car. 


Dhriv x’, &e. 


Poor Dublin now’s in throuble, 
There’s very little fun ; 

I used to sit on my yoke, and crack a joke, 
With any boy undher the sun. 

But the Alliance, boys, my time employs, 
For them I’ve patiited far, 

And left poor Erin’s Isle, my boys, 
And wy horse and jauntin’ car. 


MURPHY’S WEATHER EYE. 
Arr—Norah Creenah. 


Morpny hath a weather eye, 
He can tell whene’er he pleases, 
If it will be wet or dry, 
When ’twill thaw, and when it freezes, 
To the stars he has been up, 
aK Higher than the Alp’s high summits, 
Invited by the moon to sup 
With her, the planets and the comets. 


CHORUS. 
Murphy hath a weather eye, 
He can tell whene’er he pleases, 
If it will be wet or dry, 
When ’twill thaw, and when it freezes, 


YHE FAUGH-A-Bz LLAGH SONG-BOOK. 83 


‘Murphy hath an almanac, | 
From which we every day may gather= 

He has such a happy knack— 
What will really be the weather. 

Hold the rains, have hail at pleasure, 
Get in the sun when he’s a mind, 

And blow a cloud when he’s at leisure, 


He knows how to raise the wind. 
Murphy hath, & 


Murphy can the world eclipse, 
Can light the sun if he should fail, siz, 
- At Venus nightly lick his lips, 
And pull the Great Bear by the tail, sir; 
He knocks the quicksilver about, 
Nor ever asks what there’s to pay, sir, 
Don’t let his mother know he’s out, 


But drinks tea in the milky-way, sir! 
Murphy hath, &e., 


MOLLY CAREW. 
WORDS AND MUSIC BY SAMUEL LOVER. 


Och hone! and what will I do? 
Sure my love is all crost 
Like a bud in the frost ; 
And there’s no use at all in my going to bed, 
For ’tis dhrames and not sleep that comes into my bead. 
And ’tis all about yon, 
My sweet Molly Carew— 
And indeed ’tis a sin and a shame! 
You're complater than Nature 
In every featnre, 
The snow can’t compare 
With your forehead so fair, 
And [ rather would see just one blink of your eye 
Than the prettiest star that shines out of the sky, 


&6 THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 


And by this and by that, 
For the matter o’ that, 

You're more distant by far than that same! 
Och hone! weirasthru ! 

I’m alone in this world without you. 


Och hone! but why should I spake 
Of your forehead and eyes, 
When your nose it defies 
Paddy Blake, the schoolmaster, to put it in rhyme, 
Though there’s one Burke, he says, that would call it snub 
Jime : 
And then for your cheek ! 
Troth, ’twould take him a week 
It’s beauties to tell, as ne’d rather. 
Then your lips! oh, machree! 
In their beautiful glow, 
They a pattern might be 
For the cherries to grow. 
‘T'was an apple that tempted our mother we know, 
For apples were scarce, I suppose, long ago; 
But at this time o’ day 
’Pon my conscience I’ll say, 
Such cherries might tempt a man’s father! 
Och hone! weirasthru ! 
I’m alone in this world without you. 


Och hone! by the man in the moon, 
You taze all ways 
That a woman can plaze, 
For you dance twice as high with that thief, Pat Magee, 
As when you take share of a jig, dear, with me. 
Though the piper I bate, 
For fear the old chate 
Wouldn’t play you vour favorite tune; 
And when you're at masa, 
My devotion you crass, 
For ’tis thinking of vou. 
Yam, Molly Carew, 


THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. | 87 


While you wear, on purpose, a bonnet a2 deep 
That I can’t at your sweet purty face gst s poap. 
Oh, lave off that bonnet, 
Or elge Vi lave on it 
The loss of my wandhorin’ sowl 
Och hone! weirasthru! 
Och kone! like an owl, 
Day is night, dear, to me, without you! 


Och hone! don’t provoke me to do it; 
For there’s girls by the score 
That loves me—and more, 
And you'd look very quare if some morning you'd meet 
My wedding all marching in pride down the street, 
Troth, you’d open your eyes, 
And you'd die with surprise 
To think ’twasn’t you was come to it! 
And faith, Katty Naile, 
And her cow, I go bail, 
Would jump if I’d say, 
“Kitty Naile, name the day.” 
And though you're fair and fresh as a morning in May, 
While she’s short and dark like a cold winter's day, 
Yet if you don’t repent 
Before Easter, when Lent 
Is over, I’ll marry for spite! 
Och hone! weirasthru ! 
And when I die for you, 
My ghost will haunt you every night! 





NELL FLAUGHERTY’S DRAKK#, 


My name it is Nell, right candid I tell, 

And I live near a cool hill I never will deny, 
I had a large drake, the truth for to spake, 

My grandfather left re when going to die; 


&S ,HE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 


He was merry and sound, and would weigh twenty pound, 
The universe round would I rove for his sake, 

Bad luck to the robber, be he drunken or sober, 
That murdered Nell Flaugherty’s beautiful drake. 


[is neck it was green, and rare to be seen, 
He was fit for a queen of the highest degree, 
His body so white, it would you delight, 
He was fat, plump, and heavy, and brisk as a bee. 
This dear little fellow, his legs they were yellow, 
He could fly like a swallow, or swim like a hake, 
But some wicked habhage, to grease his white cabbage, 
Has murdered Nell Flaugherty’s beautiful drake. 


May his pig never grunt, inay his cat never hunt, 
That a ghost may him haunt in the dark of the night, 
May his hens never lay, may his horse never neigh, 
May his goat fly away like an old paper kite; 
May his duck never quack, may his goose be turned black 
And pull down his stack with her long yellow beak, 
May the scurvy and itch never part from the britch 
Of the wretch that murdered Nell Flangherty’s drake ! 


‘May his rooster ne’er crow, may his bellows not blow, 
Nor potatoes to grow,—may he never have none,— 
May his cradle not rock, may his chest have no lock, 
May his wife have no frock for to shade her hack bone.” 
That the bugs and the fleas may this wicked wretch tease, 
And a piercing north breeze make him trembJe anc 
shake, 
May a four years old bug build a nest in the lug 
Of the monster that murdered Nell Flaugherty’s drake. 


May his pipe never smoke, may his tea-pot be broke, 
And to add to the joke, may his kettle not boil: 
May he be poorly fed till the hour he is dead. 
May he alwavs be fed on lobscouse and fish oil. 


ee te 


THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 89 


May he swell with the gout till his grinders fall out, 
May he roar, howl, and shout with a horrid tooth-ache, 
May his temple wear horns and his toes corns, 
The wretch that murdered Nell Flaugherty’s drake. 


May his dog yelp and howl with both hunger and cold, 
May his wife always scold till his brains go astray, 

May the curse of each hag, that ever carried a bag, 
Light down on the wag till his head it turns gray. 

May monkeys still bite him, and mad dogs affright him, 
And every one slight him, as] ep or awake, 

May wasps ever gnaw him, and ackdaws ever claw him, 
The monster that murdered Nell Flaugherty’s drake! 


But the only good news I have to diffuse, 
Is of Peter Hughes and Paddy McCade, 

And crooked Ned Manson, and big nosed Bob Hanson, 
Each one had a grandson of my beautiful drake. 

Oh, my bird he has dozens of nephews and cousins, 
And one I must have, or my heart it will break, 

Io keep my mind easy, or else I’ll run crazy, 
And so ends the song of my beautiful drake. 





NOW CAN’T YOU BE AISY. 
MICKEY FREE’S SONG. FROM ‘‘ CHARLES O’MALLEY.” 
A1R—Arrah,-Katty, now can’t you be Aisy. 


Ox what stories I’ll tell when my sojering’s o’er, 
And the gallant Fourteenth is disbanded ; 

Not a drill nor parade will I hear of no more, 
When safely in Ireland ’'m landed. . 

With the blood that I spilt—the Frenchmen I kilt, 
Pll drive all the girls halt crazy ; 

And some ’cute one will cry, with a wink of her eye, 
“Mr. Free, now--—why car't you be aisy?” 


6H THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 


Y’ll tell how we routed the squadrons in fight, 
And destroyed them all at “Talavera,” 

And then J’ll just add how we finished the night, 
In learning to dance the “ Bolero ;” 

How by the moonshine we drank raal wine, 
And rose next day fresh as a daisy ; 

"hen some one will ery, with a look mighty sly, 
“ Arrah Mickey—now can’t you be aisy ?” 


T’'ll tell how the nights with Sir Arthur we spent, 
Around a big fire in the air, too, 

Or may be enjoying ourselves in a tent, 
Exactly like Donnybrook fair, too ; 

How ho’d call out to nie, “ Pass the wine, Mr. Free, 
For you're a man never is lazy!” 

Then some one will cry, with a wink of her eye, 
“‘ Arrah, Mickey dear—can’t you be aisy ?” 


V'll tell, too, the long years in fighting we passed, 
Till Mounseer asked Bony to lead him ; 

And Sir Arthur, grown tired of glory at last 
Begged of one Mickey Free to succeed him, 

But, “acushla,” says I, “the truth is, ’m shy! 
There’s a lady in Ballynacrazy ! 

And I swore on the book—” she gave me a look, 
And cried, “ Mickey—now can’t you be aisy ? 





0, ERIN, MY COUNTRY! MY HEART BE/é (8 
FOR THEE. 
O, Erry, my country! though strangers may roan 
The hills and the valleys I once called my own, 
Thy lakes and thy mountains no longer I see 
Yet warmly as ever my heart beats for thee, 
O cushlamachree, 
My heart beats for thee, 
Erin! Erin! my heart beats for thee. 


THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. J 


Though years have rolled over since last time we met, 
Yet lived I a thousand I could not forget 
The true hearts that loved me, the bright eyes that shone 
Like stars in the heavens, of days that are gone. 

O cushlamachree, &¢ 


Dear home of my youth, I may see thee no more; 
Yet memory treasures the bright days of yore, 
And my heart’s latest wish, the last sigh of my breast, 
Shall be given to thee, dearest land of the west. 
| O cushlamachree, &6. 


OULD IRELAND! YOU’RE MY DARLIN. 


Ovtp Ireland! you're my jewel, sure, 
My heart’s delight and glory ; 

Till time shall pass his empty glass, 
Your name shall live in story. 

And this shall be the song for me, 
The first my heart was larnin’, 

Before my tongue one accent sung, 
“Ould Ireland! you’re my darlin’” 


My blessings on each manly son 
Of thine who will stand by thee; 

But hang the knave and dastard slave 
So base as to deny thee ; 

Then bould and free, while yet for me 
The globe is round us whirlin’, 

My song shall be, “ Gra Galmachree, 
Ould Ireland! you’re-my darlin’! 


Sweet spot of earth that gave me birth, 
Deep in my soul I cherish 

While life remains within these veins, 
A love that ne’er can perish. 


THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK, 


If it was a thing that I could sing, 
Like any thrush or starlin’, 

In cage or tree, my song should be, 
“Ould Ireland! you're my darlin ” 





OUR MOTHERLAND. 
SONG OF THE KNIGHTS OF ST. PATRICB 


THERE is an island in the sea, 
"Tis Motherland—our Motherland ; 
Land of the brave, though not yet free, 
"Tis Motherland—our Motherland; 
And by our knighthood, now we swear, 
It shall not long its bondage bear, 
For we are bound the cords to tear 
From Motherland—dear Motherland 


With heart and hand in Erin’s canse, 
Motherland—our Motherland, 
We'll trample down the tyrant’s laws 
In Motherland—our Motherland ; 
And then, “ A Nation once again!” 
Shall be our knighthood’s proud refrain, 
For we shall wipe Oppression’s stain 
From Motherland—dear Motherland ! 


“ And shall our tyrants safely reign” 

O’er Motherland—our Motherland, 
“On thrones built up of slaves and slain” 
In Motherland—our Motherland ? 
“No! round this board our oath we plight, 

To watch, and labor, and unite, 
Till banded be the nation’s might ” 
For Motherland—dear Motherland ! 


THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK 93 


Oh, how our hearts would leap for joy, 

Motherland—our Motherland, 

For cne such day as Fontenov, 

In Motherland—our Motherland ! 
And grant, O Lord, it soon may come, 
When, crossing o’er the ocean’s foam, 
We freedom claim for every home 

In Motherland—dear Motherland ! 


We vow thy brilliant “Flag of Green,” 
Motherland—dear Motherland, 
Yet proudly floating shall be seen 
O’er Motherland—dear Motherland ; 
And then a freeman, bold and brave, 
Shall ’scribe the lines on Emmett’s grave. 
Which were not to be found by a slave, 
Iki Motherland—dear Motherland ! 


We once again renew our vow 
To Motherland—dear Motherland, 
To be as firm and true as now 
Lo Motherland—dear Motherland, 
“The Harp of Tara” is not dead— 
It soul-felt music yet shall shed ; 
“We'll plant the Green above the Red,” 
In Motherland—dear Motherland ! 





O LET ME LIKE A SOLDIER FALL 
BY EDWARD FITZBALL. 


O LET me like a soldier fall 
Upon some open plain ; 
This breast, expanding for the ball 
To blot out every stain ; 
Brave, manly hearts confer my doom, 
That gentler ones may tell 
Howe’er forgot, unknown my tomb, 
I like a soldier fell. 


94 


THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOE. 


I only ask of that. proud race 
Which ends its blaze in me, 
To die the last, and not disgrace 
Its ancient chivalry ; ; 
Though o’er my clay no banner wave 
No trumpet requiem swell, 
Enough, they murmur at my grave, 
“He like a soldier fell.” 





THE OLD SEXTON. e 


NIGH to a grave that was newly made, 

Leaned a Sexton old on his earth-worn spade; 

His work was done, and he paused to wait 

The fun’ral train through the open gate. 

A relic of bygone days was he, 

And his locks were white as the foamy sea; 

And these words came from his lips so thin, 

“I gather them in! I gather them in! gather, gathea, 
gather, 1 gather them in! 


“JT gather them in! for man and boy, 
Year after year of grief and joy, 

I’ve builded the houses that lie around 

In ev’ry nook of this burial ground. 
Mother and daughter, father and son, 
Come to my solitude one by one; 

But come they strangers, or come they kin, 
I gather them in! I gather them in! &c. 


“Many are with me, but still I’m alone, 

I’m king of the dead—and I make my throne 
On a monument slab of marble cold, 

Ard my sceptre of rule is the spade I hold. 
Come they from cottage, or come they from hall, 
Mankind are my subjects—all, all, all: 

Let them loiter in pleasure, or toilfully spin, 

I gather them in! I gather them in! &c. ~ 


THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 95 


- _ ‘1 gather them in—and their final rest 
{s here, down here in the earth’s dark breast. 
And the Sexton ceased—for the funeral train 
Wound mutely over that solemn plain ; 
And I said to my heart, when time is old, 
A mightier voice than that Sexton’s old, 
Will sound o’er the last trump’s dreadful din— 
» I gather them in! I gather them in!” &c. 





PAT MALLOY. 


AT sixteen years of age I was my mother’s fair hair 4 
hoy; 

She ret a little huckster shop, her name it was Malloy, 

“ve fourteen children, Pat,” says she, “which Heav’n te 
me has sent; 

Sut childer ain’t like pigs, you know; they can’t pay the 
rent.” 

She gave me ev’ry shilling there was in the till, 

And kiss’d me fifty times or more, as if she’d never get 
her fill, 3 

“Oa! Heav’n bless you! Pat,” says she, “and don’t 
forget, my boy, 

That Ould Ireland is your country, and your name is 
Pat Malloy !” 


Oh! England isa purty place: of goold there is no lack— 

I trudged from York to London wid me scythe upon me 
back, 

The English girls are beautiful, their loves I don’t decline; 

The eating and the drinking, too, is beautiful and fine; 

But in a corner of me heart, which nobody can see, 

Two eyes of Irish blue are always peeping out at me! 

O, Molly darlin’, never fear: I’m still your own dear boy~ 

Ould Ireland is me country, and me name is Pat Malloy 


From Ireland to America, across the seas, I roam: 
And every shilling that I got, ah! sure I sent it home, 


96 THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 


Me mother couldn’t write, but, oh! there came from 
Father Boyce: i 

“Oh! Heav’n bless you! Pat,” says she—I hear me 
mother’s voice ! 

But, now I’m going home again, as poor as I began, 

To make a happy girl of Moll, and sure I think I can:- 

Me pockets they are empty, but me heart is fill’d wid joy: 

For, Ould Ireland is me country, and me name is Pat 
Malloy. 





PADDY’S ISLAND OF GREEN. 
Air—In Ireland so frisky. 


AH, pooh, botheration, dear Ireland’s the nation 
Which all other nations together excela ; 
Where worth, hospitality, conviviality, 
Friendship, and open sincerity dwells. 
Sure I’ve roamed the world over, from Dublin to Dover, 
But, in all the strange countries wherever I’ve been, 
[ ne’er saw an island, on sea or on dry land, 
Like Paddy’s own sweet little island of green. 


In England, your roses make beautiful posies ; 
Provoke Scotia’s thistle, you’ll meet your reward ; 
But sure, for its beauty, an Irishman’s duty 
Will teach him his own native plant to regard : 
Saint Patrick first set it, with tear-drops he wet it, 
And often to cherish and bless it was seen ; 
Its virtues are rare, too—it’s fresh and it’s fair, too-— 
And flowers but in Paddy’s own island of green. 


Oh, long life to old Ireland, its bogs and its moorland, 
For thore’s not such a universe under the sua 
For honor, for spirit, fidelity, merit, 
For wit and good fellowship, frolic and fan ! 
With wine and with whiskey, when once it gets frisky 
An I[rishman’s heart in true colors is seen, £ 
With mirth overflowing, with love it is glowing—- 
With love for its own native island of green. 


THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 97 


PADDY CAREY’S FORTUNE. 


Twas at the town of nate Clogheen, 
That Sergeant Snap met Paddy Carey: 
A claner boy was never seen— 
Brisk as a bee, light as a fairy! 
His brawny shoulders four feet square, 
His cheeks like thumping red potatoes ; 
His legs would make any chairman stare, 
And Pat was loved by all the ladies— 
Old and young, giave and sad— 
Deaf and dumb, dull or mad— 
Waddling, twaddling, limping, squinting, 
Light, tight, and airy ! 
All the sweet faces 
At Limerick races, 
From Mullinavat to Magherafelt, 
At Paddy’s beautiful name would melt: 
The sowls would cry, 
And look so shy— 
Och! cushlamachree, 
Did you never see 
The jolly boy, the darling joy, 
The coaxing boy, the ladies’ toy, 
Nimble-footed, black-eyed, rosy-cheeked, curly-headed 
Paddy Carey ? 
O sweet Paddy, beautiful Paddy, 
Nate little, tight little Paddy Carey! 


{Tis heart was made of Irish oak, 

Yet soft as streams from sweet Killarney ; 

His tongue was tipped with a bit o’ the brogue, 
But a divil a bit at all of the blarney. 

Now Sergeant Snap, so sly and keen, 
While Pat was coaxing duck-legged Marr, 

A shilling slipped, so nate and clean— 
By the powers, he ’listed Paddy Carey ! 


THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 


Tight aad sound, strong and light ; 
Cheeks so round, eyes so bright— 
Whistling, humming, drinking, drumming, 
Light, tight, and airy ! 
All the sweet faces, - fea, 


The sowls wept loud, the crowd was great, 
When, waddling forth, came Widow Lear ; 
Though she was crippled in her gait, ~ 
Her brawny arms clasped Paddy Carey. 
“Och, Put,” she cried, “go buy the ring; 
Here’s cash galore, my darling honey !” : 
Says Pat, “You sowl! I’ll do that thing,” 
And clapped his thumb upon her money! 
Gimlet-eve, sausage-nose— 
Pat so sly, ogle throws— 
Leering, tittering, jeering, frittering 
Sweet Widow Leary ! 
All the sweet faces. Sse. 


When Pat had thus his fortune made, 
He pressed the lips of Mrs. Leary, 
And mounting straight a large cockade, 
In captain’s boots struts Paddy Carey. 
He, grateful, praised her shape, her back, 
To others like a dromedary ; 
Her eyes, that seemed their strings to crack, 
Were Cupid’s darts to Captain Carey ! 
Neat and sweet, no alloy; 
All complete love and joy ; 
Ranting, roaring, soft, adoring, 
Dear Widow Leary ! 
All the sweet faces 
At Limerick races 
From Mullinavat to Magherafelt, 
At Paddy’s promotion sigh and melt, 
The sowls all cry, 
As the groom struts by— 


THe FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. oo 


“Och ! cushlamachree, 
Thou art lost to me!”— 

The jolly boy, the darling boy ! 

The ladies’ voy, the widow’s joy! 
Long-sword girted—neat, short-skirted, 
Head-cropped, whisker-chopped Captain Carey! 

O sweet Paddy, beautiful Paddy, 
White-feathered, boot-leatLered Paddy Carey ! 





PADDY’S LAND. 


Come, all ye boys of Paddy’s land, who are inclined te 
roam 

To reap the English harvest so far away from home, 

Be sure you're well provided with comrades “old and true, 

For you have to fight both day and mght 'gainst John 
Bull and his crew. 


CHORUS. 
Then hurrah, my boys, for Paddy s land, 
Tis the land I do adore, 
May heaven smile on every child 
That loves that shamrock shorv- 


When we left home for Dublin, the morning it being 
clear, 

And when we got on board the boat, we gave three hearty 
cheers, 

Saying: Good-bye, my boys, to that dear old land, w- 
ne’er may see it more, - 

For we're going to fight, both day and night, all for that 
shamrock shore. 

Then hurrah, my boys, &o. 


We sailed away from Dublin Quay, and ne’er received e 
shock 
‘Until we landed in New York, ’longside of the deck, 


100 THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 


Where thousands of our countrymen they were all in that 
town 
And “ Fangh a ballagh!” (clear the track) were the 
words that passed all round. 
_ hen hurrah, my boys, &c. 


Then away we went, in merriment, to drink bourbon and 


wine 

Each lad he gave his favorite toast for the girl he left be 
hind ; 

We sat and sang, made the ale-house ring, despising Hrin’s 
foes 

Or any man that hates the land where St. Patrick’s sham- 
rock grows. Then hurrah, my boys, &. 





PADDY’S RETURN. 
WRITTEN AND SUNG BY J. M. BURKE, 
Air—Billy O’Rourke. 


(’vE just landed from America, with watch and cash galore, 


sir 
Tis six years ago to-day since I sailed from Baltimore, sir. 
It was in the Shamrock I set sail; for New York I was 
bound, sir, 
he wind being fair I soon got there, and welcome hand I 
found, sir. 


CHORUS. 
So it’s, boys, I am glad to see you all, 
Make yourselves quite hearty, 
And if you would rather rise than fall, 
Emigrate like Paddy M’Carthy. 


Going through the streets one day, not knowing what to j 


do, sir. 


A gintleman came up to me, saying “ What countryman are 


sy 9 7? 
you, sir? 


THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 109i 


“T am from Old Ireland, if you plaze, a place called Done- 


gal, sir, 
{ landed here but yesterday, could you find me work at 
all, sir?” | So it’s, boys, &¢ 


z 


“What kind of work, now, can you do?” says I, “Anything 
- in the farming.” 
He slapped his hand upon my back, says he, “My boy, 
that’s charming, Vira! 
Fifty dollars { will give yon a month, your lodging and 
good meat, sir, 
For I like a man from Ireland, for before he’d starve, he’d 
- emigrate, sir.” So it’s, boys, &e. 


for six long years with this good man I lived, outside of 
Baltimore, sir, 

Till death called to his door, as many he did before, sir. 

Before he died he called me to his bedside, saying “Paddy, 
don’t hesitate, sir, ie 

Here’s box in store, sir, and cash galore, so for old Ireland 
emigrate, sir.” So it’s, boys, &e. 





PATRICK CASEY. 
- A1rR—Billy O’Rourke. 


He.—Sweet Kathleen, dear, I’m now come here, 
With love’s impatient choking ; 
I can’t forget your last night’s pet 
But I think you was only joking. 
My cabin’s built, my ground is tilt, 
lve been neither proud nor lazy, : 
So come hard by, and the priest shall try 
To make you Mistress Casey. 


R: tal di-ral de ra too, di ral de lal tal, di ral di rf da 


{02 =... « i1UGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 


Shs. ‘ndeea, young Pat, I shan’t do that, 

Your coartship you may close up, 

The rich exciseman is now my prizeman, 
At you 1 shall turn my nose up; 

He’s bougnt a gown would make you stare, 
A bonnet would drive you crazy, 

His wealth and riches I must share. 
Se march ox, Patrick Casey. Ri tal, &e 


He.—Sweet Kathleen dear, you can’t see clear, 

For gold vou’d turn the worms up; 

You'll calm tuat brow, and I'll tach ye how, 
For you'll spoil that nose if it turns up. 

The thundering thief with gold in store, 
But I'll try to keep my rage in, 

So when next we meet, I’ll make so bold, 
By the powers, I’ll spoil his gauging. 

Ri tal, &e 


She.—Pray stay your gostering, Master Pat, 

Perhaps you've seen a worse day, 

He’s not so ola, if it comes to that— 

He.— He was sixty-five last birthday ; 
She.—W ell, that is not so old, I’m sure, 

For one that can smile and plaze ye. 
He.—It’s a trifling fault that time can’t cure, 

It’s too old for a Mistress Casey. 

Ri tal, &e 


She.—Come, Mr. Impudence, no more prate, 
On your betters your scorn youre showring, 
Young Judy at chapel perhaps may wait, 
And you see your grapes are souring; 
My dear exciseman brought me books, 
I’m learning, ’m much advancing 
A Frenchman who divinely looks, 
Tle has hired to teach me dancing. 


Ri tal, &o. 


semi Sak 


THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 108 


She.— When I’m his wife, I’ve got a tongue, 

And if your arts be trying, 

You'll find although he’s old, I’m young. 
He.— Well, that’s what I’m not denying. 
She.—-He’s got a watch, 
He.— I’ve got a boar, 

A cow that gives milk and custard, 
She.— He’s got a thousand pounds or more— 
He.— When he’s yours he'll not want for mustard. 

Ri tal, &e 


He.— Miss Kathleen, I’ve just got one say, 
For, my love, you are greatly shocking, 
As your old exciseman comes this way, 
T’ll show you the back of my stocking. 
When I am gone, you'll dance and sing, 
Your wealth will drive you crazy. 
But Pll find out Judy, I have bought the ring, 
And I’ll soon make her Mistress Casey. 
Ri tal, &e. 


She.—Dear Patrick, stay, 
He.— Be quiet, I say, 
- She.—You should not scorn or flout me. 
He.— What signifies this cold delay? . 
She.— You know I can’t do without ye. 
He.— Your exciseman’s bought you showy rags. 
She.—How can you be so provoking, 
He,— You said you loved his wealth and bags. 
She.— You know I was only joking. 
Ri tal, &e 


He.— Sweet Kathleen, give those lips divine, 
Was all this done to taze me? 

She.—Dear Patrick, do forgive this time, 
And Il] do what I can to plaze ye, 


104 THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 


V’ll henceforth make your sweet repose, 
So make your mind quite aisy, a: 
T’li make your meals, I’ll mend your hose, 
He.—Then Il] make you Mistress Casey. 
| Ri tal, &o. 


PADDY IS THE BOY. 


It’s some years ago, I very well know, 

Since I first saw daylight with my two blessed eyes ; 

I was born, so they’say, when my Dad was away, 
On St. Patrick’s day, in the morning, =~ 

How. they nursed me with joy; said, what a fine boy! 

Put a stick in my fist, by the way of a toy; 

Faith! there’s no mistake, they admired my make, 

And said some day I’d give the girls a warming 


CHORUS. 


For, Paddy is the boy that’s fond of a glass, 
Paddy is the boy that’s fond of a lass! 

Dear Old Dublin is the place for me, 

And Donnybrook is the place to go for a spree. 


At a wake or a fair, poor Paddy is there ; 

He will fight foe or friend, if they do him offend ; 

Let the piper strike up, he will rise from his cup, 
With a smile on his face adorning. . 

With his little Colleen, he’ll dance on tbe green, 

Sure, an Irishman, there, in his glory was seen ; 

Play a reel or jig, he don’t care a fig, | 

_ But he'll dance till daylight in the morning. 

For, Paddy is the boy, &e 


nies 


Now boys, do you mind, you never will find, 

Such a dear little place as the Emerald Isle ; | 

Long, long, may it stand, and good luck to the land, 
That dear Old St..Patrick was born in! 


Nl 





THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. LSA 


May the girls, young and old, may the boys, brave and bold 
Unite, heart and hand, to protect the dear isle! 
And, morn, noun, and night, may joy and delight 
Shine on them, like a fine summer’s morning. 
For, Paddy is the boy, &«. 


PAT OF MULLINGAR. 


THey may talk of Flying Childers, 
And the speed of Harkaway, 
Till the fancy it bewilders, 
As you list to what they say; 
But for real bone and beauty, though, to travel near and fax, 
The fastest mare you'll find belongs to Pat of Mutungar. 


CHORUS. 
She can trot along, jog along, drag a jaunting-car 5 
No day’s tuo long, when set along with Pat of MualSugne. 


She was bred in Connemara, 
And brought up at Castlemaine ; 
She won cups at the Curragh 
The finest baste on all the plain! 
All conntries and conveyances she has been buckled to; 
She lost an eye at Limerick, and an ear at Waterloo. 
She can trot along, jog along, &a 


If a friend you wish to find, sir, 
Vil go wherever you want; 
YV’jl drive you out of your mind, sir, 
Or a little way beyont. 
{ike an arrow through the air, if you step apon the car, 
You'll ride behind ths tittle mare of Pat of Mouliingar. 
She can trot along, jog along, &a 


} 06 HE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 


-..» + Yo Dollymount or Kingston, 
_ Tf the place you wish to see, 
/. [ll drive you to the Strawberry beds, 
It’s all the same to me: 
To Donnybrook, whose ancient fair is famed for love or war _ 
: if you have the time to spare, we'll go to Mullingar, 
She can trot along, jog along, &, 


When on the road we're going, 
The other carmen try , 
(Without the darling knowing) 
To pass her on the sly, 
Her one ear points up to the sky, she tucks her haunches inj _ 
Then shows the lads how she can fly, ae 1 sit still and grin. 
| | She can trot along, jog along, &o. 





Then should yez want a car, sirs, 
I hope you'll not forget 
Poor Pat of Mullingar, sirs, 
And his darlin’ little pet; | | 
Bhe’s gentle as the dove, sirs, her speed you can’t deny; 
And there’s no blind side about her, though she hagn’t got — 
an eye. 3 









She can trot along, jog along, &o. 


PADDY MAGEE; 
OR, THE THREE DREAMS. 


Joun Butt, he was an Englishman, and he went “a 
tramp one day, x 
With three pence in his pocket, to carry him on his way; — 
He travelled for miles and miles and no one did he see, 
Till he fell in with an Irishman by the name of Paddy — 
Magee. a. 


THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BUOK. 10? 


“Good morning,” says John Bull, “Good morning, sir,” 
says Pat; 

“Where are you going?” says Johnny; “I’m on the 
road, that’s flat.’ 

““ Have you any money about you ?” says Johnny unto Pat, 

“It’s the only thing I wanted, for I have not got a rap.” 


They trudged along together, met a Scotchman on their 
ay 


way. | 
Oh, lend us a bob, now, Scotty, to help us on our way ;' 
“‘ Lend you a bob,” said Scotty, “faith and sure,” said he, 
“Tis the only thing I wanted, for I’m not worth a 
bawbee.” 


“i have three pence,” said the Englishman; “ what sbal} 
I do with that?” 

“Oh, buy three pen’orth of whiskey, it will cheer us up* 
said Pat. 

“Don’t do that,” said the Scotchman, “T’ll tell you whas 
to do, 

Buy three pen’orth of oatmeal, and we'll all of us hare 
burgoo.” 


“Now with my three pence,” said the Englishman, “ hal? 
quartern loaf, what say ? 

And in yonder haystack we’ll sleep all hunger away ; 

We can quench our thirst by the running brook, besiaw 
the brawling stream. 

And he loaf shall be his in the morning who dreams tho 
largest dream.” 


John Bull he dreamed by the morning that ten thousand 
men had been 

For ten years digging a turnip up, the largest ever wasseen. 

At last they got this turnip up by working night and day 

And it took five thousand horses to draw this turnip away 


«08 THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 


Now, the Scotchman he dreamt by the morning ten thou 
sand men had been 

For ten years making a boiler, the largest ever was seen ; 

“ What was it made of?” said the Englishman, “ was it 
made of copper or tin?” 

Said Scotty, “”I'was made of copper, to boil your turnip 
is” 


“Blood and ’ounds,” said the Irishman, I’ve been dream- 
ing a very big drame, : 

I dreamt I was in a haystack, beside of a brawling strame ; 

[ dreamt you, I, and Scotty was there, ’tis true or 1’ an oaf, 

J dreamt that I was hungry—so I got up and ate the 
Joaf.” 





PADDY BURKE. 


A FRENCH gentleman from Limerick, one Paddy Burke by 


name, 

Tvok passage for America, to come al] the way by 
stame ; 

And as Pat had never seen a ship, he was very much to 
blame, | 


So his troubles you'll take as a warning. 

When guing by the hatchway, Pat cried out: “What is 
that ? 

Lf it’s cocks and hens you’ve got on board, begoles! IU 
live on fat.” 3 

Just then the Boatswain cried, “Lay to!” “Ill want 
enough,” says Pat, 

“ And I’ll swallow all your eggs in the morning.” 


CHORUS. 
Paddy was the boy that looked out for number one, 
Paddy was the boy when the ating it begun, 
For his mother was a Murphy, and be was his mother’s 
son 


And he'd ate till he bust in the morning. 


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THE FAUGH-A BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 109 


When they started on the ocean, poor Pat felt rather sick; 
Like a drunken man he staggered, and he rolled around 
the deck, 
And he wished himself in Limerick, Old Ireland— avick, 
“And the pigs and potatoes he’d be scorning : 
When getting in the Captain’s way, who shouted, “Heave 
aLead !” 
“Oh! be jabers—and my stomach, too,” says Pat, now 
nearly dead, : 
“Stop the ship and let me out, or there'll be murder on 
nearly your head, 
It’s an inquest you'll be holding in the mon.ing.” 
Paddy is the boy, &c. 


Poor Pat a little better got, as they went on their way, 
Till one dark night a storm arose, and raging was the sea, 
And he wished he’d never started, to see America, 
But stayed home at Ireland, where he was born in: 
The vessel sprung a leak, she let water in below, 
_ “Go fetch the doctor quick,” says Pat, “it’s a shame to leave 
her so 
For I had the same complaint myself, ere from Ireland ] 
did go, 
And I thought I’d be dead before morning.” 
Paddy is the boy, &e. 


When they sighted Old Columbia’s shore, Pat cried, “God 
bless the soil ; 
It is the land where dacint men can live beyond their toil, 
And not be taxed and ground to death ‘to increase the 
Saxon’s spoil. 
Let freemen take this as a warning, 
It is the land where Erin’s Harp is free from British tread 
Where every noble Fenian can go forth with warlike tread 
And raise the noble banner, the Green above the Red, 
And freedom on Old Ireland will be dawning.” 
Paddy is the boy, &e. 


4 


110 THE FAUGH-A RALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 


PADDY McSHANE’S SEVEN AGES. 
AS SUNG BY MACFARLAND, TYRONE POWER, &O. 
Arr—Sprig of Shillalah. 


I¥ my own botheration don’t alter my plan, 

I'll sing seven lines of a tight Irishman, 
Wrote by old Billy Shakspeare, of Ballyporeen. 

He said, while a babe I loved whiskey and pap, . 

That I roared like a bull in my grandmothers tap ; 

She joulted me hard, just to hush my sweet roar, 

When I slipped through her fingers, whack on the floos 
What a squalling I made, sure, at Ballyporeen ! 


When I grew up a boy, with a nice, shining face, 

With my bag at my back, and a snail-crawling pace, 
Went to school at old Thwackam’s, at Ballyporeen: 

His wig was so fusty, his birch was my dread ; 

He larning beat out ’stead of into my head : 

“Master McShane, you're a great, dirty dolt ; 

You’ve got no more brains than a Monaghan colt ; 
Youre not fit for our college at Ballyporeen !” 


When eighteen years of age, was teazed and perplexed 

To know what I should be—so a lover turned next, 
And courted sweet Shelah, of Ballyporeen. 

I thought I’d just take her, to comfort my life, 

Not knowing that she was already a wife ; 

She asked me just once if to see her ’d come, 

When I found her ten children and husband at bome= 
A great, big, whacking chairman of Ballyporeen! 


I next turned soldier—I did not like that, 

So turned servant, and lived with great Justice Pat, 
A big dealer in praties at Ballyporeen. 

With turtle and venison he lined his inside— 

Ate so many fat capons, that one day he died ; 

So great was my grief, that, to keep spirits up, 

Of some nice whiskey-cordial I took a big sup, 
To my master’s safe journey from Ballyporeen t 


THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 111 


Kicked and tossed about, like a weathercock vane, 
I packed up my all, and I went back again 
__ To my grandfather's cottage, at Ballyporeen. 

I found him, poor soul! with no legs for his hose, 
Could not see through the spectacles put on his nose, 
With no teeth in his mouth, so Death locked his chin— 
He slipped out of his slippers and ’faith I slipped in, 

And succeeded poor Dennis of Ballyporeen. 





PETTICOAT LANE. 


WHEN to Dublin I came from the sweet County Down, 
I called on a friend, for to show me the town; 
He brought me thro’ streets, lanes, and alleys so grand, 
Till my brogues were most wore, and I scarcely could stand. 
He show’d me fine houszs, which were built up so high, 
And a man made of stone, almost up to the sky; 
But the names of them places went out of my brain, 
Except one, and he said it was Petticoat Lane. 

Ri to, &e. 
Convenient to Petticoat Lane there’s a place, 
And as we walked through it, we couldn’t get peace ; 
The shops were all full of fine clothes, black and blue, 
But the fellows outside nearly tore me in two: 
One dragged me this way, to get a good frieze, 
Another had corduroy breeches, my size : 
But one chap bawls out, when I wouldn’t remain, 
“Show him up to the college in Petticoat Lane!” 

Ri to, &e. 
We got loose from this spot, myself and my friend, 
I cou'dn% do less than a tester to spend, 
But we spied boys and girls in a laughable grovp, 
Sitting cross-leg ged, and they licking up soup. 
Says I, “ Are these what you call your poor-house recruits ® 
‘Find out,” says one, and his bowl at me shoots. 
They roared with pleasure, while I roared with pain, 
‘‘ Arrah, Paddy, you’re welcome to Petticoat Lane!” 


Ri to, &«. 


{12 THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 


My friend thought to drag me away by the sleeve, 
When a tartar dropt over my head an old sieve ; 
I turned for to strike her, but got in the eye 
A plaster of what they called hot-mutton pie! 
I kept groping about, like a man that was blind, 
Till I caught hould of somebody coming behind: 
I prayed that I might get the strength of a Carn, 
To be ABLE +o whale him in Petticoat Lane. 
Ri to, &6. 


I walloped away, and I got walloped, too, 
While all sorts of ructions were raised by the crew ; 
You would swear it was raining brick-bats and stones, 
Till I heard my antagonist giving some groans: 
“Run, run, youvillian you!” some one did cry, 
“ Sure, I can’t for the mutton that’s stuck in my eye!” 
I was led through the crowd, and heard somebody saying, 
“There’s a peeler most kill’d, up in Petticoat Lane.” ~ 
5 Ri to, &c. 


These words like a thunderbolt fell on my ear, 

So, I scooped all the fat from my eye, pretty clear ; 

My friend tould the crowd that was round to be mute } 

While we slipped to a house, called the Sign of a Boot; 

There I call’d for a sup and we both took a seat, 

Two or three that had backed us came in for a treat— 

When the reck’ning was called for, my pockets were 
clean ; 

For pounds, shillines, and pence were in Petticoat Lane. 

Ri to, &e. 


The reck’ning it came to a hog and a groat, 
For which the landlord he took the lend of my coat ; 
I started without, still cursing the town, | 
*When a policeman’s pot-stick made friends with my crown 
Says he: “You have killed C 106”— 
“ Arrah, be aisy, sir! I want none of your tricks.” 
But the sergeant and twenty more swore it was plain 
That I was the bully of Petticoat Lane. Ri to, &. 


THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 113 


They all swarmed about me, like flies on a cask ; 

But to prison to take me was no easy task, 

When I got there, I was charged with the crime . 
"Twas my own brother Darby I bate all the time. 
When he seen me, he let out a thundering curse 

On the day that he first went to join in the force ; 

He released my ould coat and he got me off clean, 

‘To go home and say prayers for sweet Petticoat Lane. 





RETURN OF PAT MALLOY. 


WHEN landed safe in Dublin-town, I met a castle-hack— 

The boots upon my feet he eyed, and the clothes upon my 
back. 

He says: “You're from America, you look so neat and trim; 

Just let me see your letters, sir?” I handed one to him. 

He says: “It’s from O’Mahony,” and says I, “You funny elf, 

"Tis a letter for my own sweet Moll I’m taking home 
mvself,” 

He says: ‘You are a Fenian.” Says I, “You're right, 
old boy; 

For, Ould Ireland is my country, and my name is Pat 
Malloy.” 


He had me then examined, and he says: “ My nice young 
man 

‘What brought you home to Ireland? Was it the Fenian 
plan?” 

“ The ship it brought me home,” says I, “and Fenians all 
agree 

That from sweet Athlone to Blarney-Stone Ould Ireland 
shall be free ; 

But was it not for Molly’s eyes that’s sticking in my heart, 

An me mother an’ the childer, too, oh, sure they had their 
part ! 

Pll take them to America, and then look out, my boy, 

For, Ould Ireland is my country, and my name ia Pat 
Malloy.” 


~ 


14 THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 
Bat when I met my Molly dear, she kissed me o’er ané 


o'er ; 

She could not laugh for crying, as I gave her geol¢ 
galore. 

“Ts your own, my dearest Molly, for I knew you would 
prove true ; 

Every pound I sent my mother, I put by two for you; 

And now you have the shiners, Moll, and will you take 
myself?” 

She blushed and whispered: “ Yes, dear Pat, I’m yours, 
but not for pelf.” 

We got my mother’s blessing, and it filled my heart with 


soo) 
For Ould Ireland is my country, and my name is Pat 
Malloy. 


Early the next morning, sure, we went to Father Boyce, 
“That rib,” says he, wid a wink at me, “it is a purty 
_ choice.” 

“And mighty strong it is,” says I, “my heart, sure, knows. 
it best, 

Three years or more, with thumps galore, she made it 
thrash my breast ; 

These eyes are mighty killing, sir; but now they are my 
own, 

For four long years when far from home, they made me 
cry, och, hone! ~ 

And now I ask your blessing, sir, for to complete my joy, 

For, Ould Izeland is my country, and my name is Pat 
Malloy.” 


Now my mother’s in her rocking-chair, her childer pay tue 
rint 

In New York, relieved from work, each happy hour is spint ; 

And, free from every toil and care, her heart is light and 
free ; | 

She si gs a good old Irish song, with young Pat on her 
knee; 


& 


THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 115 


And Molly, lovely Molly, sure, he is her heart’s delight, 

She sings, and talks, and plays with him, both morning, 
noon, and night, 

And says: “he’s his daddy’s picture,” and she calls him 
her darling boy ; 

For, he was born in Ould Ireland, and his name it i 
Malloy. 





SOGGARTH AROON. 
BY JOHN BANIM. 


Am I the slave they say, 
Soggarth aroon ? 

Since you did show the way, 
Soggarth aroon, 

Their slave no more to be, 

While they would work with me 

Ould Ireland’s slavery, 


Soggarth aroon ? 


Why not her poorest man, 
Soggarth arvon, 

Try and do all he can, 
Soggarth aroon, 

Her commands to fulfil 

Of his own heart and will, 

Side by side with you still, 
Soggarth aroon? 


Loyal and brave to you, 
Soggarth aroon, 

Yet be no slave to you, 
Soggarth aroon,— 

Nor, out of fear to you, 

Stand up so near to you<= 

Ock! out of fear to youl 
Soggarth aroon ! 


THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK 


Who, in the winter's night, 
Soggarth arvon, 

When the cowld blast did bite 
Soggarth aroon, 

Came to my cabin-door, 

And, on my earthen flure 

Knelt by me, sick and poor 
Soggarth aroon ? 


Who on the marriage-day, 
Soggarth aroon, 

Made the poor cabin gay, 
Sogearth aroon— 

And did both laugh and sing, 

Making our hearts to ring, 

At the poor christening, 
Soggarth aroon ? 


Who, as friend only met, 
Soggarth arvoon, 

Never did flout me vet, 
Soggarth aroon ? 

And when my heart was dim, 

Gave, while his eve did brim, 

What I should give tu him, 
Soggarth aroon ? 


SONG OF THE VOLUNTEERS OF 1788 


BY THOMAS DAVIS. 
Arr—Boyne Water. 
Hourraw! ’tis done—our freedom’s won— 
Hurrah for the volunceers ! 
No laws we own, but those alone 
Of our Commons, Kings, and Peers, 
The chain is broke—the Saxon yuke 
_ From off our neck is taken; 
Ireland awoke—J)ungannon spoke— 
With fear was England shaken 


THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 113 


When Grattan rose none dared oppose 
The claim he made for freedom : 

They knew our swords, to back his words 

_. Were ready, did he need them. 

Then let us raise, to Grattan’s praise 
A proud and joyous anthem ; 

And wealth, and grace, and length of days 
May God, in mercy grant him ! 


Bless Harry Flood who nobly stood 
By us, through gloomy years! 

Bless Charlemont, the brave and good, 
The Chief of the Volunteers! 

The North began, the North held on 
The etrife for native land ; 

Till Ireland rose and cowed her foes— 
God bless the Northern land ! 


And bless the men of patriot pen— 
Swift, Molyneux, and Lucas ; 
Bless sword and gun, which “Free Trade” won 3 
Bless God! who ne’er forsook us! 
And long may last the friendship fast, 
Which binds us all together ; 
While we agree our foes shall flee 
Like clouds in stormy weather. 


Remember still, throngh good and ill, 
How vain were prayers and tears— 

How vain were words, till flashed the swords 
Of the Irish Volunteers. 

By arms we've got the right we songht, 
Through lorg and wretched years— 

Hurrah! ’tis done, our freedom’s wou— 
Harrah for the Volunteers ! 


118 


THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 


SINCE I’VE BEEN IN THE ARMY. 
A1r.—Who’ll be King but Charley. 


I’m Paddy Whack, of Ballyhack, 
Not long ago turn’d soldier ; 
In grand attack, in storm or sack, 
None will than I be bolder. 
With spirits gay I march away, 
I please each fair beholder ; 
And now they sing, “ He’s quite the thing.” 
Och! faith! ye girls, I charm ye, 
And there ye come, at beat of drum, 
To see me in the army. 
Rub a dub dub, and pilli li loo, 
Whack ! fal de lal la, and trilli li loo 
I laugk and sing like anything 
Siuce I’ve been in the army. 


The lots of girls my train unfurls 
Would form a pleasant party ; 

There’s Kitty Lynch, a tiddy wench, 
And Suke and Peg M’Carthy: 

Miss Judy Baggs, and Sally Maggs, 
And Martha Sciaggs, all storm me, 

And Molly Magee is after me, 
Since P’ve been in the army. 

The Sallies and Pollies, the Kitties and Dollies, 
In numbers would alarm ye; 

F’en Mrs. White, who’s lost her sight, 
Admires me in the army. 


Rub a dub dub, &e. 


The roaring bovs who made a noise, 
And thwack’d me like the mischief, 

\re now become, before me, dumb, 
Or else are very civil. 


THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 119 


- There’s Murphy Roake, who often broke 
My head, now daresn’t dare me, 
But bows and quakes, and off he sneaks, 
Since I’ve been in the army. 
And if one neglect to pay me respect, 
Och! another tips the blarney, 
With “ whisht! my friend, and don’t offend, 
A gentleman cf the army.” : 
Rub a dub dub, &e 


My arms are bright, my heart is light, 
Good-humor seems to warm me; 
I’ve now become with every chum, 
A favorite in the army. 
_ If I go on as I’ve begun, 
My comrades all inform me, 
They soon shall see that I will be 
A general in the army. 

Delightful notion, to get promotion, 
Then, ladies, how Ill charin ye; 
For it’s my belief, commander in chief 

I shall be in the army. 
Rub a dub dub, &e 


A SONG FOR THE POPE. 
BY REV. P. MURRAY, D.D., OF MAYNOOTH COLLEGE, 


A sonG for the Pope, for the royal Pope, 
Who rules from sea to sea, 

Whose kingdom or sceptre never can fail ; 
What a grand old king is he! 

No warrior hordes has he with their swords 
His rock-built throne to guard ; 

For against it the gates of hell shall war 
In vain, as they ever have warred. 


#20 THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 


O never did mightiest monarch yet, © 
In the day of his power and pride, 

Rule, as the good old Pontiff rules, 
With his Cardinals by his side. - 

In terror and death is the conqueror’s march, 
As the steel tides rise and roll ; 

But the bonds he binds with our faith and love, 
Ciasping the heart and the soul. 


Great dynasties die, like flowers of the field, 
Great empires wither and fall ; 

Glories there have been that blazed to the stars; 
There have been—and that is all. 

But there is the grand old Roman See, 
The ruins of earth among, 

Young with the youth of its earliest prime, 
With the strength of Peter strong. 


The heretic leader rears his head, 
And the lie from his poisoned lips 

Goes ont, like a thousand shadows of deatn, 
Black as the black eclipse; | 

Bat sure and swift, in the destined hour, 
The Anathema from on high 

Flashes, and down the doomed one falls, 
As Lucifer fell from the sky. 


Two hundred millions of loyal hearts, 
The sheep at the shepherd’s voice, 
As the tongues of the Angels echo it cn 
Vo the ends of the earth, rejoice. | 
From clime to clime, and throughout all time, 
It lives and speaks ‘and thrills, 
Away beyond the seas and the streams, 
Beyond the eternal hills. . 


THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 123 


Over all the orb no land more true 
Than our own old Catholic land, 
Through ages of blood to the Rock hath stood— 
True may she ever stand ! 
O, ne’er may the star St. Patrick, set 
On her radiant brow, decay ! 
Hnurra for the grand old Catholic Isle! 
For the grand old Pope, hurra! 


STAR-SPANGLED BANNER. 


O! say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light, 
What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleam 
. ing, Pie 
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous 
* fight, 
O’er the ramparts we watch’d were so gallantly stream- 


ing ; 
And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air, 
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still 
there ! 
OD! say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave 
O’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave? 


On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, 
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes, 
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towring steep 
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses ; 
Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam, 
In full glory reflected, now shines on the streain : 
"Tis the star-spangled banner! O, long may it wave 
O’er the land of the free, and the hume of the brave 


And where is that band who so vauntingly swore 
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion, 

A home and a country shall leave us no more? 
Their blocd has wash’d out their foul footsteps’ pollw 
tion: : 


= 


“To THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 


No refuge could save the hireling and slave 
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave, 
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave 
O’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave. 


O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand 
_ Between their loved home and the war’s desolation ; 
Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land 
Praise the power that hath made and preserved us a 
nation ! | 
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, 
And this be our motto—“ In God is our trust!” 
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave — 
O’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave! 





A SOLDIER’S TEAR. 


Upon the hill he turn’d, to take a last fond look 

At the valley, and the village church, and the cottage by 
the brook ; 

He listen’d to the sounds so familiar to his ear, 

And the soldier lean’d upon his sword, and wiped away a 
teat. 


Beside that cottage porch a girl was on her knees, 

She held aloft a snowy scarf, which flutter’d in the breeze: 

She breathed a prayer for him, a prayer he cculd - not 
hear ; 

But he paused to bless her as she knelt, and wiped away 
a tear. 


He varn’d and left the spot—oh! do not deem him weak, 

For dauntless was the soldier’s heart, though tears were on 
his cheek. 

Go watch the foremost ranks in danger’s dark career— 

Re sure the hand most daring there has wiped away a tear 


THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 123 


PATRICK SARSFIELD. 


«“'T ERE are few names more worthy to be inscribed in 
t 3 roll of honor than that of Patrick Sarsfieid, whe 
may be quoted as a type of loyalty and patriotic devotion, 
In the annals of Irish history he stands as a parallel to 
Pierre du ‘Verrail and Chevalier de Bayard, in those cf 
France, and may be equally accounted sans peur et sans 
reproche, ‘the fearless and irreproachable’ Knight, in his 
public actions firm and consistent, in his private charactet 
amiable and unblemished. . . . At the end of the 
war, William III. would have gladly won his services, 
and he offered to continue him in his rank and property ; 
but he listened to no overture and left his native country 
attended by thousands of that gallant body, who, under 
the title of ‘Irish Brigade’ filled the continent of Europe 
wto their renown.” 


SHAMUS O’BRIEN 


A TALE OF ’N/ NETY-EIGHT, AS RELATED BY AN IRI&@H 
PEASANT, 


Lefanu. 


Jist after the war, in the vear ’ninety-eigbt, 

As soon as tbe boys wor all scattered and bate, 
"T'was the custom, whenever a peasant was got, 
‘To hang bim by trial—barrin’ such as was shot. 


Thera was trial by jury goin’ on by daylight, 
And the martial law hangin’ the lavin’s by night. 
It’s then. was hard times for an honest gossoon, 
If Le missed the judges he’d meet a dragoon. 


An’ whether the sojers or judges gave sentence, 
The divil a much time they allowed for repentar.oe¢ ; 
An’ the many a fine boy was then on his kapin’ 
With a small share of restin’ or sittin’ or sleepin’ 


224 THE FAUGH-A BALCAGH SUN-BOOK. 


An’ becanse they loved Erin, and scorned to sell it, 

A prey for the bloodhound, a mark for the bullit— 
Unsheltered by night and unrested by day, 

With the hcaih for their Lerrack, revenge for their pay, 


An’ the bravest an’ honestest boy of thim all 

Was Shames O’Brien, frem the town of Glingall; 

His limbs wor well set, an’ his body was light, 

An’ the keen-fanged hound had not teetb half as white 


But his face was as pale as the face of the dead, 
An’ his cheek never warmed with the blush of the red — 
An’ for all that be was’nt an ugly voung boy, 

For the old boy himself couldn’t blaze with his eye, 


So droll an’ so wicked, so dark an’ so bright, 

Like a fire-flash that crosses the depths of the night ; 
Aw’ he was the best mower that ever has been, 

An’ the elegantest hurler that ever was seen. 


In fencin’ he gave Patrick Mooney a cut, 

Av’ in jumpin’ he gave Tom Molony a fnt; 

For lightness of foot there was not his peer, 
For, by heaven! he almost outrun the red deer. 


An’ his dancin’ was such that the men used to stare, 
An’ the women turn crazy, he did it so square: 
Ayn’ sure the whole world gave in to him there ! 


Aw it’s he was the boy that was hard to be caught, 
Av’ it’s often he ran, an’ it’s often he fought ; 

Av’ it’s many the one can remember quite well 
The quare things he did, an’ it’s oft I heerd tell 


How he frightened the magistrates in Vahirbally, 
An’ escaped through the sojers in Aherlo valley, 
An’ leathered the yeomen, himself agin four, 

An’ stretched the four strongest on old Galtimore. 


“THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK 128 


But the fox must sleep sometimes, the wiid deer must rest, | 
An’ treachery prey on the blood of the best ; 
An’ many an action of power an’ of pride, 

An’ many a night on the mouutain’s bleak side, 
An a thousand great dangers an’ toils overpast, 
In darkness of night he was taken at last. 


Now Shamus, look back on the beautiful moon, 
Foi the door of the prison must close on you soon, 
An’ take your last look at her dim, misty light, 
That falls on the mountain and valley to-night. 


One look at the village, one look at the flood, 
An’ one at the sheltering far-distant wood ; 
Farewell to the forest, farewell to the hill, 
Av’ farewell to the friends that will think of you still. 


Farewell to the patthern, the hurlin,’ an’ wake, 

An’ farewell to the girl that would die for your sake! 
An’ twelve sojers brought him to Maryborough jail, 
An’ with irons secured him, refusin’ all bail. . 


The fleet limbs wor chained, the sthrong hands wor bound, 
An’ he lay down his length on the cold presen ground, 
An’ the dhrames of his childhood kem over him thers, 

As gentle and soft as the sweet summer air. 


Aw’ happy remimbrance crewlin’ an ever, 

As fast as the foam flakes dhrift down an the river, 
Bringin’ fresh to his heart merry days long gone by 
Till the tears gathered heavy an thick in his eye. 


But the tears didn’t fall, for the pride iv his heart 
Wouldn’t suffer one dhrop down his pale cheek tc start 
An’ he sprang te Lis feet in the dark presen cave, | 

An’ he swore with a fiezceness that misery gave 


By th2 hopes iv the good an’ the catss iv the brave, 
That when he was mouldhering in the cowld grave, 
His inimies never should have it to boast 

His scorn iv their vengeance one moment was lost. 
His bosom might bleed, but his cheek should be dhry 
For undaunted he lived, and undaunted he’d die. 


PART SECOND. 


Well, as soon as a few weeks were over an’ gone, 

The terrible day of the trial came on; ; 
There was such a crowd there was scarce room to stand, 
An’ sojers on guard, an’ dragoons sword in hand. 


An’ the court-house so full that the people were bothered, 
An’ attorneys and criers on the point of being smothered ; 
An’ counsellors almost gave over for dead, 
An’ the jury sittin’ up in the box overhead. 


An’ the judge setted out so determined an’ big, 
An’ the gown on his back, and an elegant wig, 
An’ silence was called and the minute ’twas said, 
The court was as still as the beart of the dead. 


An’ they heard but the opening of one prison lock, 

An’ Shamus O’Brien came into the dock— 

For one moment he turned his eyes round on the throng, 
An’ then looked on the bars so firm and so strong 


An he saw that he had not a hope nor a friend, 
A chance to escape, nor a word to defend ; 

An’ he folded his arms as he stood there alone, 
As calm an’ as cold as a statue of stor 2. 


An’ they read a big writin’ a yard long at laste, 

Ar Shamus didn’t see it, nor mind it a taste, 

An ‘he judge took a big pinch of snuff, an’ be says: 
“Ar3 you guilty or not, Jim O'Briea, if you rlease? 


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An’ all held their breath in silence of dread, 
An’ Shamus O’Brien made answer an’ said : 
“ My lord, if you ask me if in my life-time 
I thought any treason or did any crime, 


“That should call to my cheek, as I stand alone here, 
The hot blush of shame or the coldness of fear, 

Though I stood by the grave to receive my death-blow 
Before God and the world I would answer you, “ No.” 


“ But if you would ask me, as I think it like, 

If in the rebellion I carried a pike, 

Av’ fought for old Ireland from the first to the close, 
An’ shed the hearts’ blood of her bitterest foes— 


“T answer you, “ Yes”; an’ I tell you again, 

Though I stand here to perish, it’s my glory that then 

In her cause I ai willing my veins should run dry, 
An’ that now *x her sake I am willing to die.” 


Then the silence was great, and the jury smiled bright, 
An’ the judge wasn’t sorry the job was made light; 

By my soul it’s himself was the crabbed ould chap ! 
In a twinkling he pulled on his ugly black cap. 


Then Shamus’s mother, in the crowd standin’ by, 
Called out to the judge in a pitiful cry, 

“Oh! judge, darlin’, don’t—oh! don’t say the word 
The crayther is young—have mercy, my lord ! 


“You don’t know him, my lord! oh! don’t give him to ruin 
He was foolish—he didn’t know what he was doin’: 

He’s the kindliest crathur, the tenderest hearted— 

Don’t part us forever, we that’s so long parted ! 


“ Judge, mavourneen, forgive hin—forgive him, my lord | 
An’ God will forgive you—oh ! don’t say the word!” 
This was the first minute O’Brien was shaken, 

When he saw that he was not quite forgotten or forsaken. 


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An’ down his pale cheek, at the word of his mother, 
The big tears were running, one after the other, 
An’ two or three times he endeavored to spake, 
But the streng manly voice used to falter and break. 


But at last, by the strength of his high-mounting pride. 
He conquer’d an’ mastered his grief’s swelling tide ; 

An’ says be, “ Mother dowt—don’t break your poor hea» 
Sure, sooner or later, tbe dearest, must part, 


“ An’ God knows it’s hetter than wandering in fear, 

On the bleak trackless mountains among the wild deer, 
To be in the grave, where the heart, head, an’ breast ; 
From fabor and sorrow forever shall rest. 


“Then, mother, mv darling, don’t cry any mo1e— 

Don’t make me seem broken in this my last hour, 
For I wish, whev my heart’s lyin’ under the raven, 
No true man cap say that I died like a craven.” 


Then towards the judge Shamus bent down his head, 
An’ that minute the solemn death-sentence was said. 


PART THIRD. 


The morning was bright, and the mists rose on high, 
And the lark whistled merrily in the clear sky— 
But why are the men standing idle so late? 

And why do the crowd gather fast in the street ? 


What come they to talk of? What come they to see 
And why does the Jong rope hang from the cross-tree ? 
Vh! Shamus O’Brien, pray fervent and fast, 

May the saints take your sou! for this day is your last. 


Pray fast and strong, for the moment is nigh, 

When strong, proud, and great as youare, you must die! 
At last they drew open the big prison gate, 

And out came the sheriffs and sojers of state. 


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An’ a cart in the middle, an’ Shamus was in it— 
Not paler, but prouder than ever, that minit, 
An’ as soon as the people saw Shamus O’Brien, 
Wid prayin’ an’ blessin’, an’ all the girls cryin’, 


A wild wailin’ sound kem on all by degrees, : 
Like the sound of the lonesome wind blowin’ through trees, 
On, on, to the gallows the sheriffs are gone, 
An’ the car, an’ the sojers go steadily on. 


An’ at every side swellin’ around of the cart, 

A wild sorrowful sound that would open your heart, 
Now under the gallows the cart takes its stand, 

An’ ihe hangman gets up with a rope in his hand. 


An’ the priest havin’ blest him gets down on the ground, 
An’ Shamus O’Brien throws one look around. 

‘Then the hangman drew near, and the people grew still, 
' Young faces turn sickly, an’ warm hearts turn chill; 


An’ the rope being ready, his neck was made bare, 
For the gripe of the life-strangling cords to prepare ; 
Av’ the good priest has left him, havin’ said his last prayer 


But the good priest did more—for his hands he unbound. 
Av’ with one daring spring Jim has leaped on the groun4 
Bang! bang! go the carbines, an’ clash go the sabres; 

He’s not down! he’s alive! now attend to him, neighbors 


By one shout from the people the heavens are shaken, 
One shout that the dead of the world might awaken ; 
Your swords they may glitter, your carbines go bang, 
But if you want hanging, ’tis yourself you must hang 


To-night he'll be sleepin’ in Aherloe glin, 

An’ the luck’s in the dice if you catch him agin; 
The sojers run this way, the sheriffs run that, 

An Father Malone lost his new Sunday hat. 


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An’ the sheriffs were both of them punished sevarely, 

An’ fined very steep because Jim done them fairly 
A week after this time, without firin’ a cannon, 

A sharp Yankee schooner sailed out of the Shannon, - 
An’ the captain left word he was goin’ to Cork, 

But the divil a bit—he was bound to New York. 


The very next spring—a bright mornin’ in May— 
Aw’ just six months after the great hangin’ day— 
A letter was brought to the town of Kildare, 

An’ on the outside was written out fair: 


“'9 ould Mrs. O’Brien, in Ireland, or elsewhere.” 
An’ the inside began—“ My dear good ould Mother, 
I’m safe, an’ I’m happy—an’ not wishin’ to bother 
You in radin’-—with the help of the priest— 

I send you enclosed in this letter at least 

Enough to pay him an’ to fetch you away 

T’o the land of the free and the brave—Amerikay } 
Here you'll be happy, an’ never made cryin’ 

As long as youre the mother of Shamus O’Brien. 


‘Give my love to sweet Biddy, an’ tell her beware 
Of that spalpeen who calls himself ‘ Lord of Kildare.’ 
An’ just say to the judge, I don’t care a rap 

For him, or his wig, or his dirty black cap. 


« An’ as for the dragoons—them paid men of slaughter— 
Say I love them as well as th’ old boy loves holy wotet 
An’ now, my good mother, one word of advice— 
Fill your bag with potatoes, an’ bacon, an’ rice ; 


“ An’ tell my sweet Biddy, the best way of all 
Is now, an’ forever, to leave ou’) Glengall, 

An’ come with you, taking a snug cabin berth, 
Av’ bring us a sod of the ould Shamrock earth. 


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« An’ when you start from ould Ireland take passage at Qotk, 
An’ come straight across to the town of New York: 

An’ there ask the Mayor the best way to go © 

To the town of Cincinnati—the state of Ohio. 

An’ there you will find me, without much tryin’, 

At the ‘ Harp an’ the Eagle,’ kept by Shamus 4)’Briep * 





THE IRISH JIG. 
Arr—One Bumper at Parting. 
Ox, my blessing be on you, old Ireland, 
My own land of frolic and fun! 
For all sorts of mirth and diversion, 
Your like isn’t under the sun. 
Bohemia may boast of it’s polka, 
And Spain of its waltzes talk big; 
Oh, they are all nothing but limping, 
Compared with our own Irish jig. 


CHORUS. 
Then a fig for your new-fashioned wautsea, 
Imported from Spain and from France; 
And a fig for the thing called the polka- 
Our own Irish jig is the dance ! 


They tell how this jig came in fashion— 
And I believe that the story is true— 
Twas Adam and Eve that first danced it: 
The reason was, partners were few. 
And although they could both dance the polka, 
Eve thought it was not over-chaste ; 
So she preferred the jig to the dancing— 
And, ’faith, I approve of her taste. 
Then a fig, &e. 


The light-hearted daughters of Erin, 

Like wild deer on the mountain that bound, 
Their feet never touch the green island, 

But music is struck from the grourd. 


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And oft on their hills and green valleys 
They dance with such light and such grace, 
That even the daisies they tread on. 
Look uv with delight in their face. 
Then a fig, &, 


They tell how this jig it was danced by 
The kings and the great men of yore ; 
King O”1 ‘oole hnuself could well foot it, 
To a tune they called Rory O’Mure. 
And oft in the great halls of Tara, 
Our farnous King Brien Born, 
He danced this old jig with his nobles, 
And played on his harp tu it, tov. 
Then a fig, &, 


And, sure, when Herodias’s tee 
Was dancing i in King Ierod’s sight, 
His heart, tlat for years had been frozen, 

Was melted with j jov and delight. 
And oft, and a hundred times over, 
I heard Father Flanagan tell, 
"T'was this very same jig that she footed, 
That pleased the ould villain so well. 


Then a fig, &e. 





THE IRISHMAN. 


*T'1s myself that bears an illigant name, 
And who dare say it is not? 
T was born one day when my mother was out, 
In a nate little mud-built cot. 
My father was the broth of a boy, 
And my mother was the same,— 
The reason, my jewels, do you hear, 
That I bear such an illigant name. 


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CHORUS. 


I’m the broth of a boy, deny it wno can, 
And my mother’s a true-born Irishman ! 
I’m the broth of a boy, deny it who can, 
And my mother’s a true-born Irishwoman ! 


There’s the English, the Irish, the Scotch, and the Welch, 
And success to them all jolly four; 

And bad luck to me if one of them will flinch, 
If there was but one to a score. 

For John Bull’s cold steel will make them freeze; 
Paddy’s shillelah will warm them enough ; 

Taffy will choke them with red-hot toasted cheese; 
And Scotchy will blind them with snuff. 


*Tis a glorious army, deny it who can, 

John Bull, Taffy, Scotchy, and an Irishman 
Tis a glorious army, deny it who can, 

John Bull, Taffy, Scotchy, and an Irishman! 


At the city of Delhi we gave them cayenne, 
And our sojers they fought first-rate ; 
And with determination went in every man, 
When they blew up the Cashmere gate. 
The word of command from our Generals did fly, 
And lion-hearted fought officers and men, 
Blood for blood was our country’s cry, 
‘And we'll never trust the Indians again ! 


Fo oui country can conquer by land or sea; 
On, boys, for death or victory ! 

On, brave army! on, my boys! 

One Irishman can lick ten Sepoys! 


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THE GREEN LITTLE SHAMROCK OF 
IRELAND. 


BY ANDREW CHERRY. 


THERE’s a dear little plant that grows in our isle, 
T'was Saint Patrick himself, sure, that set it ; 
And the sun on his labor with pleasure did smile, 
And with dew from his eye often wet it. | 
It thrives through the bog, through the brake, throng 
the mireland : 
And he called it the dear little Shamrock of Ireland. 
The sweet little Shamrock, the dear little Shamrock. 
The sweet little, green little Shamrock of Ireland. 


This dear little plant still grows in our land 
Fresh and fair as the daughters of Erin, 
Whuse siniles can bewitch, whose eyes can command, 
In each climate that they may appear in ; 
And shine through the bog, through the brake, through — 
the mireland ; 
Just like their own dear little Shamrock of Ireland. -, 
The sweet little shamrock, the dear little Shamrock, 
The sweet little, green little Shamrock of Ireland. 


This dear little plant that springs from our soil, 
When its three little leaves are extended, 
Denotes from one stalk we together should toil, ~<a 
And ourselves by ourselves be befriended ; 
And still through the bog, through the brake, through the 
mireland, 
From one root should branch, like the Shamrock of Ireland. 
The sweet little shamrock, the dear little Shamrock, 
The sweet little, green little Shamrock of Ireland. 


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THE SHAN VAN VOGH. 
A BALLAD OF 1796. 


Oh! the French are on the sea, 
Says the Shan Van Vogh; 
The French are on the sea, 
Says the Shan Van Vogh; 
Oh! the French are in the Bay, 
They'll be here without delay, 
And the Orange will decay, 
Says the Shan Van Vogh. 
Oh! the French are in the Bay, 
They'll be here by break of day 
And the Orange will decay, © 
Says the Shan Van Vogh. 


And where will they have their camp? 
Says the Shan Van Vogh; 
Where will they have their camp? 
Savs the Shan Van Vogh: 
On the Curragh of Kildare, 
The bovs they will be there, 
With their pikes in good repair, 
Says the Shan Van Vogh. 
To the Curragh of Kildare 
The boys they will repair, 
And Lord Edward will be there, 
Says the Shan Van Vogh. 


Then what will the yeomen do? 
Says the Shan Van Vogh; 
What will the yeomen do? 
Says the Shan Van Vogh: 
What should the yeomen do, 
But throw off the red and blue, 
And swear that they’ll be true 
To the Shan Van Vogh ? | 
What should, &e 


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And what color will they wear? 

Says the Shan Van Vogh ; 
What color will they wear? 

Says the Shan Van Vogh; 
What color should be seen 
Where our fathers’ homes have been, 
But their own immortal Green ? 

Says the Shan Van Vogh. 

What color, & 


And will Ireland then be free? 

Says the Shan Van Vogh; 
Will Ireland then be free ? 

Says the Shan Van Vogh. 
Yes! Ireland sHALL be free, 
From the centre to the sea; 
Then hurra for Liberty ! 

Says the Shan Van Vogh, 

Yes! Ireland, &o. 


THE WEARING OF THE GREEN. 


O, Pappy dear, and did you hear the news that’s going 
round 

The Shamrock is forbid by laws, to grow on Irish ground; 

No more St. Patrick’s day we'll keop, his color last be 
seen 

For there’s a bloody law agin the wearing of the green 

O, I met with Napper Tandy, and he took me by the 
hand 

4nd he says, “How is Ould Ireland, and how does sle 
stand ?” . 

“ She’s the most distressed country that ever I have seen, 

For they are hanging men and women for the wearing of 
green.” 7 


And since the color we must wear, is England’s cruel red, 
Ould Ireland’s sons will ne’er forget the bloo\ that they 
have shed: 


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Then take the Shamrock from your hat, and cast it on the - 


sod, 


_ It will take root, and flourish still, tho’ under foot ’tis trod... 
When the law can stop the blades of grass from growing | 


as they grow, 

And when the leaves in summer-time their verdure does 
not show 

Then I will change the color I wear in my caubeen, 


But till that day, plaze God, I'll stick to the wearing of 


the green. 


‘ 


But if at last her colors should be torn from Teelnade } 


heart ; 


Her sons with shame and sorrow from the dear old soil 


will part; 
I’ve heard whispers of a country that lies far beyond the 
sea 


Where rich and poor stand equal in the light of freedom’s 


day. 
O! Erin, must we leave you, driven by the tyrant’s hand? 
Must we ask a mother’s blessing in a strange but happy 
land? 


Where the cruel cross of England’s thraldom is never to be 


seen 
But where, thank God, we’ll live and die, still wearing of 
the green 


THE CORK LEG. 
Ark—The King and the Countryman. 


I’x1 tell you a story without any sham: 
In Holland lived Mynheer Von Flam, 
Who every morning said “I am 
The richest merchant in Rotterdam.” 
Ri tooral, &e. 


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One morning when he was as full as an egg, 
A poor relation came to beg, 
He kick’d him out without broaching a keg, 
But in kicking him out he broke his leg. 
Ri tooral, &e. 


A surgeon, the first in his vocation, 

Came, and he made a long oration, 

He wanted a limb for anatomization, | 
So he finish’d the job by amputation. Ri tooral, &e. 


Says he, when the surgeon had done his work, 

« By your sharp knife I lose one fork, 

But on to crutches I’ll never stalk, 

For I'll have a beautiful leg of cork.” —_Ri tooral, &e. 


An artist in Rotterdam, it would seem, 

Had made cork legs his study and theme, 

Each joint was as strong as an iron beam, 

And the springs were a compound of clock-work and 
steam. Ri tooral, &o. 


The leg came home, and fitted right, 

Inspection the artist did invite, 

Its fine shape gave Myuheer delight, 

He fix’d it on, and he screw’d it tight. Ri tooral, &o. ~ 


He walk’d through each square, and he pass’d each shop, 
Of speed he went at the utmost top, 
He went with a bounce, and a jump, and a hop, 
When he found his leg he could not stop. 
Ri tooral, &o 


Horror atd grief were in his face, 

The neighbors thought he was running a race, 
He clung to a lamp-post to stop his pace 
But the leg kept on, nor gave up the chase. a 

Ri tooral, &s 


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He call’d to some men with all his might, 


“ 0)! stop my leg, or I’m murder’ quite.” 


But though they heard him aid invite, 
In less than a minute he was out of sight. 


Ri tooral, &e. 


He did his best to ease his pain, 
He went o’er hill, and field, and plain, 
He laid himself down, but all in vain, 


For the leg got up and was off again. 
Ri tooral, &e. 


He walk’d of days and nights a score, 
Of Europe soon he made the tour, 
He died, and though he was no more, 


His leg kept on the same as before. 
Ri tooral, &a. 


The leg-maker grumbles and loudly swears, 
That of his bill he’ll increase the amount 
But for all this the leg never cares, 


But still keeps up a running account. 
Ri tooral, é&e 


I’ve told my story fairly and free, 

Of the funniest man I ever did see, 

He never was buried, though dead he be, 

And I am nowsinging hisLEG. Ritooral, &@ 





THE OLD RACE. 


A1IR—Garryowen. 
Hourra for the brave old Irish race 
That fire or sword could not efface, 
That lives and thrives and grows apace 
However its foes assail it— 
That point by point, and day by day 
Wins back its rights, and works its way] 
And bursts its bonds—Hurra! Hurra! 
With a hundred cbeers we'll hail it! 


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What did those foes to the old race do? 
They wreck’d their country through and through, 
They robb’d and stripp’d, they hacked and slew, 
They hang’d and burn’d, and drown’d them, 
But vainly spent were storm and shock 
On that deathless seed, that living rock— 
The Isle is filled with the brave old stock, 
And they’ve worth and wealth around them! 


When fire and sword had done their parts, 

Then tried those foes their baser arts, 

By dark degrees to change the hearts 
That never would yield or falter ; 

But now, as in the days of old, 

The Irish heart is native gold, 

Cast in the glorious heaven-made mould, 
No power on earth can alter! 


And if good work is yet undone, 
If rights remain yet to be won, 
As gure as the rising of the sun, 
’T will be the same proud story, 
Till ends the strife in Liberty, 
Till stands the race redeemed and free, 
And all the isle from sea to sea 
Is one bright field of glory ! 





THE FORLORN HOPE. 
A SONG OF THE IRISH BRIGADE. 
Arr—Cruiskeen Lawn. 
Let us lift the green flag high 
Underneath this foreign sky, 


Unrol the verdant volume to the wind. 


As we hasten to the fight 
Let us drink a last good night 


To the beauty which we leave, boys, behind, behind, 


behind ; 


T'o the beauty which we leave, boys, behind. 


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Plant it high upon the breach, 
And within the flag-stafl’s reach ; 
We'll offer it the tribute of our gore. 
Yes! on that altar high, 
Spite of tyrants we can die, 
And our spirits to the saints above may soar, soar 
soar ; 
And our spirits to the saints above may soar. 


Liberty ie yons, 

Now tis glory leads as on, 
And spangles gloomy slavery’s night, 

If treedoin’s shattered bark 

Tlave not foundered i?’ the dark, | 
Her wreck must see this beacon bright, bright 

bright; 

Her wreck will see this beacon bright. 


Yes; glory’s shining light 
Mast irradiate the night, 
And renew the flaming splendor of the day ! 
And freedom’s sinking crew 
Shall recover hope anew, 


And hail the blazing splendor of this ray, ‘ray, 
TAY; 
And hail the blazing splendor of this ray. 


The green flag on the air, 
Sons of Erin and despair, 
To the breach in serried column quick advance. 
On the summit we may fall: 
Hand in hand, my comrades all, 
et us drink a last adieu to merry France, Franca 
France ; 
wet us drink a last adieu to merry France. 


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To Erin, comrades, too, 
And her sunny skies of blue, 
A goblet commingled with tears ! 
With the fleur-de-lis divine, 
The green shamrock shall entwine,; 
But the Ancient see the Sun-burst rears, reare 
rears ; 
The Ancient see the Sun-burst rears. 





THE COW THAT ATE THE PIPER. 


In the year 98, when our troubles were great, 
And it was treason to be a Milesian, 

That black-whisker’d set we will never forget, 
Though history tells ns they were Hessian. 

In this troublesome time, oh! ’twas a great crime, 
And murder never was riper, 

At the side of Glenshee not an acre from me, 
There lived one Denny Byrne, a piper. 


Neither wedding uor wake would be worth a shake, 
Where Denny was not first invited, 

At squeezing the bags and emptying the kegs, 
He astonished as well as delighted. ; 

In these times poor Denny could not earn one penny, 
Martial law had him stung ike a viper ; 

Thev kept him within till the bones and the skin 
Were grinning thro’ the rags of the piper. 


One evening in June, as he was going home, 
After the fair of Rathnagan, 

What should he see from the branch of a tree, 
But the corpse of a Hessian there hanging. 

Says Denny, “those rogues have boots, I’ve brogues ;* 
On the boots then he laid such a griper, 

He pulled with such might, and the boots were so tight, 
That legs and boots came away with the piper 


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Then Denny did run, for fear of being hung, 

Till he came to Tirn Kennedy’s cabin: 

Says Tim from within, “ I can’t let you in, 
You'll be shot if you’re caught there a rapping.” 

He went to the shed, where the cow was in bed, 
With a wisp he began to wipe her ; 

They lay down together on a seven-foot feather ; 
And the cow fell a hugging the piper. 


Then Denny did yawn, as the day it did dawn, 
And he streel’d off the boots of the Hessian ; 
The legs—by the law, he left on the straw 
And he gave them leg-bail for his mission. 
When the breakfast was done, Tim sent out his son, 
T’o make Denny jump up like a lamp-lighter ; 
When the legs there he saw, he roar’d like a jackdaw, 
“Oh, daddy! the cow’s ate the piper!” 


“Musha bad luck on the beast—she’d a musical taste, 
For to eat such a beautiful chanter ; 

Arrah! Patrick avic, take a lump of a stick, 
Drive her off to Glenhealy—we’ll cant her.” 

Mrs. Kennedy bawl’d, and the neighbors were call’d, 
They began for to humbug and gibe her; 

To tne churchyard Tim walked, with the legs in a box, 
And the cow will be hung for the piper. 


The cow she was drove a mile or two off, 
To the fair at the side of Glenhealy, 
And there she was sold for four guineas in gold, 
To clerk of tke parish, Tim Daly. . 
They went to a tent, the luck-penny was spent, 
The clerk being a jolly old swiper. 
Who d’ye think was there, playing the “Rakes of Kit 
dare,” 
But poor Denny Byme, the piper! 


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Then Tim gave a bolt, like a balf-drunken colt, 
At the piper he gazed like a gommack, 

He said, “By the powers! I thonght these eight hours 
You were playing in driman dhw’s stomach !” 

Then Denny observed how the Hessian was served, 
And they all wish’d Nick’s cure to the griper ; 

E w grandeur they met, their whistles they wet, 
And like fairiesthey danced round the piper. 


THE TAIL IV ME COAT. 


I LARNED me reading an’ writing, 
At Ballyragget where I wint to school, 
"T'was there I first took to fighting, 
With the schoolmaster, Misther O’Toole; 
He and J had many a scrimmage, 
‘The nevera copy | wrote, 
But not a gossoon in the village, 
Dare thread on the tail iv me coat. 


I an illegant hand was at courting, 
For lessons I took in the art, 
Till Cupid, that blaggard, while sporting, 
A big arrow sint smack through ny heart 
Miss O’Connor, I live straight forninst her, 
And tindher lines to her I wrote, 
Who dare say a black word against her, 
Why I’d thread on the tail iv their coat. 


A bog-trotter, wan Micky Mulvany, 
He tried for to coax her away ; 
He had money and I hadn’t any, 
So a challenge I sent him wan day. 
Next morning we met at Killhealy, 
The Shannon we crossed in w buat, 
There I latherd him wid me shillely, 
For he trod on the tail iv me coat. 


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Me fame spread through the nation, 
Folks flock for to gaze upon me, 
All cry out without hesitation, 
“Och, yer a fightin man, Micky Magee 12 
[ fought with the Finnigan faction, 
We bate all the Murphys afloat, 
If inclined for a row or a ruction, 
Why, I’d tread on the tail iv me coat. 





THY HARP, BELOVED ERIN. 

BY LEMAN REDE. 

Air—Erin-go-bragh. 
Tuy harp, beloved Erin, sounds over the deep, 
Like the murmuring sigh of an infant asleep— 


My cwn native Ireland—my dear native Ireland, 
Oh, Erin-go-bragh. 


The gales that blow o’er thee, lovely Ireland, are dear, 

As a mother’s caress, or a penitent’s tear, 

Oh, the heart homes of Ireland—the dear, dear homes of 
Treland, Oh, Erin-go-bragh. 


The dove ne’er returned whom the ark saw depart, 

For he built an abode in Hibernia’s heart, 

Olive branch’d Ireland, olive branch’d Ireland, 
Oh, Erin-go-bragh. 





THE PILOT. 


“On, Pilot! ’tis a fearful night, 
There’s danger on the deep, 

I'll come and pace the deck with thee, 
I do not dare to sleep.” 

«Go down!” the sailor cried, “go down, 

This is no place for thee; 

Fear not! but trust in Providence, 

Wherever thou may’st be.” 


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“Ah! pilot, dangers often met, 
We all are apt to slight, 
And thou hast known these raging waves 
But to subdue their might.” | 
‘6Tt is not apathy,” he cried, 
“That gives this strength to me, 
Fear not! but trust in Providence, 
Wherever thou may’st be. 


On such a night, the sea engulph’d 
My father’s lifeless form ; 

My only brother’s boat went down, 
In just so wild a storm ; 

And such perbaps may be my fate,—- 
But still I say to thee, 

Fear not! but trust in Providence, 
Wherever thon may’st be.” 





THE DONNYBROOK JIG. 


Ox, ‘twas Dermot O’Nolan M’Figg, 
That could properly handle a twig; 
He went to the fair, 
And kicked up a dust there, 
In dancing the Donnybrook jig, 
With his wig 
Oh! my blessing to Dermot M’Figg. 


When he came to the midst of the fair 
He was all in a paugh of fresh air, 
For the fair very soon, 
Was as full as the moon. 
Such mobs upon mobs were there, 
Oh, rare! 
So more luck to sweet Donnybrook fair. 


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The souls they came pouring in fast, 
To dance while the leather would last, 
For the Thomas-street brogue 
Was there in much vogue, 
And oft with a brogue a joke passed, 
Quite fast, 
While the cash and the whiskey did last. 


But Dermot, his mind on love bent, 
In search of his sweetheart he went, 
Peeped in here and there, 
As he walked through the fair, 
And took a small drop in each tent as he wens, 
Och! on whiskey’d love he was vent. 


And who should he spy in a jig, 
With a meal man, so tall and so big, 
But his own darling Kate, 
So gay and so nate— 
Faith, her partner he hit him a dig, 
The pig, 
He beat the meal out of his wig. 


Then Dermot, with conquest elate, 
Drew a stool near beautiful Kate: 
“Arrah, Katty!” says he, 
“My own cushlamachree ! 
Sure, the world for beauty, you beat, 
Complete, 
So we'll just take a dance while we wait.” 


The piper to keep him tune, 
Struck up a gay lilt very soon, 
Until an arch wag 
Cut a hole in his bag, 
And at once put an end to the tune, 
Too soon, 
Och! the music flew up to the moon. 


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To the fiddler says Dermot M’Figg, 
“Tf you'll please to play ‘Shelah na gig, 
We'll shake a loose toe, 
While you humor the bow, 
To be sure you won't warm the wig 
Of WFigg, 
While he’s dancing a tight Irish jig.” __ 


The meal man he looked very shy, 
While a great big tear stood in his eye, 
He cried, “Oh dear, how I’m kilt, 
All alone for that jilt, 
With her may the birds fly high 
In the sky, 
For I’m murder’d and don’t know for why.” 


“Oh!” says Dermot, and he in the dance, 
Whilst a step towards his foe did advance, 
“By the Father of men, . 
Say but that word again, 
And Ill svon knock you back in a trance 
To your dance, 
For with me you'd have but a small chance.” 


“But,” says Katty, the darlint, says she, 
61f you'll only just listen to me, 
It’s myself that will show, 
That he can’t be your foe, ; 
Though he fenght for his cousin, that’s me.” 
Says she, 
For, sure, Billy’s related to me. 


“For my own cousin-jarmin, Anne Wild 
Stood for Biddy Mulroony’s first child, 
And Biddy’s step son, 
Sure he married Bess Dunn, 
Who was gossip to Jenny, as mild 
| A child, 
As ever at mother’s breast smiled 


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‘And may be you don’t know Jane Brown, 
Who served guats’ whey in sweet Dundrum town, 
"T'was her uncle’s half-brother 
That married my mother, 
And bought me this new yellow gown, 
To go down, 
Where the marriage was held in Milltown.” 


Oh, then how the girls did look, 
When the clergyman opened his book, 
Till young Nelly Shine, 
Tipt Dermot a sign, 
- Faith, he soon popped her into a nook 
Near the brook, 
And there he linked arms with the cook. 


« By the powers!” then says Dermot, “’tis plain, 
Like the son of that rapscallion Cain, 
My best friend I have kilt, 
Though no blood there is spilt, 
And the never a harm did I mean, 
That’s plain, 
But by me he'll be ne’er kilt again.” 


_ Then the mealman forgave him the blow, 
That laid him a-sprawling so low, 
And being quite gay, 
Asked them both to the play, 
But Katty, being bashful, said ‘“ No 
No, no, 
Yet he treated them all to the show. 


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THE DEATH OF SARSFIELD. 


[Sarsfield was slain on the 29th July, 1693, at Landen, heading 
his coun ae in the van of victory—King William flying. He 
could not ha’e died better. His last thoughts were for his country. 
As he lay on the field, unhelmed and dying, he put his hand to his 
breast. When he took it away it was full of his best blood. Lock- 
ing at it sadly with an eye in which victory shone a moment before, 
be said faintly, “ Oh! that this were for Ireland.” He said no more; 
on history records no nobler saying, nor any more becoming 

eath. | : 


SARSFIELD has sailed from Limerick Town, 
He held it long for country and crown ; 
And ere he yielded, the Saxon swore 

To spoil our homes and our shrines no more. 


Sarsfield and all his chivalry 

Are fighting for France in the Low Countries— 
At his fiery charge the Saxons reel, 

They learned at Limerick to dread the steel. 


Sarsfield is dying on Landen’s plain ; 

His corslet hath met the ball in vain— 

As his life-blood gushes into his hand, 

He says, “Oh! that this was for fatherland !” 


Sarsfield is dead, yet no tears shed we— 

For he died in the arms of Victory. 

And his dying words shall edge the brand, 
When we chase the foe from our native land { 





THE IRISH HURRAH. 


HAvE you hearkened the eagle scream over tne sea? 
Have you hearkened the breaker beat under your lee? 
A something between the wild waves, in their play, 
And the kingly bird’s scream, is the Irish Hurrah. 


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How it rings on the rampart when Saxons assail— 
Hew it leaps on the level, and crosses the vale, 
Till the talk of the cataract faints on its way, 

And the echo’s voice cracks with the Irish Hurrah. 


How it sweeps o’er the mountain when hounds are om 
scent, : 

How it presses the billows when rigging is rent, 

Till the enemy’s broadside sinks low in dismay, 

As our boarders go in with the Irish Hurrah. 


Oh! there’s hope in the trumpet and glee in the fife, 
But never such music broke into a strife, 

As when at its bursting, the war-clouds give way, 
And there’s cold steel along with the Irish Hurrah. 


What joy for a death-bed, your banner above, 
And round you the pressure of patriot love, 
As you're lifted to gaze on the breaking array 
Of the Saxon reserve at the Irish Hurrah. 





THE WHISTLING THIEF. 
SAMUEL LOVER. 


WHEN Pat came o’er,the hills, his colleen fair to see, 
His whistle, loud and shrill, his signal was to be. 
[ Shrill whistle. | 
“Oh! Mary,” the mother cried, “there’s some one whia 
tling sure.” 
“Oh! mother, you know it’s the wind that’s whistling 
through the door.” 


[ Whistles “ Garryowen.” | 


“T’ve lived a long time, Mary, in this wide world, my 
dear 
But the wind to whistle like that, I never vet did hear.” 


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“But, mother, you know the fiddle hangs just behind the 
chink, ; 
And the wind upon the string is playing a tune, ] 
think.” | 
[Dog barks. | 


‘The dog is barking now, and the fiddle can’t play has 

tune.” 
But, mother, you know that dogs will bark when 

they see the moon.” 

“ Now how can he see the moon, when you know he’s old 
and blind ? : 

Blind dogs can’t see the moon, nor fiddles be played by 
the wind.” 

[Pig grunts.] 


“ And there is the pig, onaisy in his mind.” 

“But, mother, you know they say that pigs can see the 
wind.” 

“That’s all very well in the day, but then, I may remark, 

That pigs, no more than we, can see anything in the 
dark. 


“Now I’m not such a fool as you think; I know very well 
it is Pat. 

Be off, you whistling thief! and get along home out of 
that ! 

And you be off to your bed, and don’t bother me with 
your tears, 

For though I’ve lost my eyes, I have not lost my ears.” 


MORAL. , 

Now boys, too near the house don’t courting go, d’ye min 

Unless you're certain sure the old woman’s both d 
and blind ; 

The days when they were young, forget they never can— 

They’re sure to tell the difference ’twixt a fiddle, a dog, 
or a man: ae 


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THE BOLD IRISH SOLDIER. 
Arrn—The Girl I Left Behind Me. 


A RAw recruit, och shure is me. , 
I enlisted in Phildelaphy, z 
Fieldmarshal soon I came to be, 
Tip-top of the Union army. 
Oh, what pleasure an’ oh what joys, 
"Twill be to gain promotion. 
T’ve a taste for fighting, anyhow, boys, 
An’ a better one for the lotivn. 


Spoken.—Arrah ! an’ ain’t I, sure, fond of the lotion. 
Look at the bloom on the top of my nose. Aiv’t it: beau- 
tiful. But the worst of it is it is always rannin’ an’ the 
sorra bit can I stop it, and that’s not military, is it lads f 
It wants a rum puncheon (punching). I shonld think that 
would do it. But enough. ll leave my nose aloue au’ 
goon wid my tale. Well, afther 1 tuok the bounty, J 


enlisted and gut dhrunk to the tune of 





CHORUS. 
With spirits gay I'll march away, 
All danger to be scorming 3 
I could fight al) night till the break of day, 
Aw’ come home quite fresh in the morming 


Now I an’ another an’ a good many more, 
Had to strip an’ show our figure, 

Aw’ be well examined by Dr. O’Moore, 
Afore we could pull a trigger. 

The Docther patted us.on our backs, 
Say he, “ None can be prouder, 

Yez can give an’ take some thunderin whacks, 


Aw’ yer rattlin stuff for powder.” 


Spoken.—Well, an’ afther we were all well syalated 


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at, the Sargent comes up, and says, “Fall in: Quick 
march, an’ don’t fall out,” an’ thin we all marched in a 
straight line down crooked lanes till we came to the Pig in 
the Pound, kept by a mighty civil landlord, who lost his ap- 
petite directly we entered, an’ I belave has not regained it 
since. However, he put us six in a bed, and all of us 
dramed about ould Ireland, the first Jim of the Say, bless 
tue veins of her heart. An’ somehow or another we all 
dreained we were fightin’ the enemy, for in the £°74le of 
the night we all rolled on to the floor, an’ I received a 
murtaerous kick on the jaw from Mick Casey’s iron-tipped 
boot, who let daylight into Kelly’s skull, who holloed out 
blue murder, which woke the chap of a sargent up, who 
soon got knocked down, but up came the picket, an’ we 
were marched off to be drilled to the tune of 





AiR—Young Recruit. — 


See these ribbons gaily flying, 
I name fightin’ for the flag, 
I name fightin’ for the flag. 
For that I don’t mind dyin’ 
Since to ould Ireland good it’s been. 
I'll serve it with right good will, 
And help to cure o1 kill 
Any cruel despot’s band, 
Should they e’er attempt to land, 
For we're made of fightin’ stuff, 
An’ they'll get handled rather tough, 
Then three cheers for our Union flag, 
Three cheers for our Union flag. 


Spoken.—W ell, I shan’t say anything more about my- 
wlf or any other man to-night lads, but drop in to-morrow 
b your poor feet will let you, an’ hear me sing to the tune 
iy ooeeencee 


With spirits gay I’ll march away, do, 


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THE MACS AND THE O’S. 


Wuen Ireland was founded by the Macs and the O's, 
[ never could learn, for nobody knows: 

But history says they came over from Spain, 

To visit old Granua, and there to remain ; 

Our fathers were heroes for wisdom and fame; 

Fer multiplication they practised the same; 

St. Patrick came over to heal their complaints, 

Aud very soon made them an island of saints. 


The harp and the shamrock were carried before 

Brave Roderick O’Connor and Roger O’Moore, 

And the good and bad deeds of the Macs and the Oe, 
And this is the tale that these verses disclose. 

Hugh Neil of Tyrone, O'Donnel, O’Moore, 

O’Brien, O’Kelly, O’Connell galore, 

All houses so royal, so loyal and old, 

One drop of their blood was worth ounces of gold. 


McDonnell, McDougal, O’Curran, O’Keefe, 
Sly Redmond O’Hanlon, the Rapderrey chief; 
O’Maley, McNally, O’Sullivan rare, 

O’Faily, O’Daily, O’Rurns of Kildare ; 
O’Dougherty, chief of the Isle Inishone, 
McGinness, the prince of the valleys of Down, 
The Collerans, Hollerans, every one knows; 
The Raffertys, Flahertys—they were all O's. 


One-eyed King McCormick, and great Phil McOoole 
McCarty of Dermot and Tooley O’Toole, 

Hugh Neil the grand and great Brian Boru, 

Sir Tagen O’Regen and Con Donohue; 

O’Hara, O’Marrah, O’Conner, O’Kane, 

O’Carroll, O’Farrell, O’Brennan, O’Drane, 

With Murtaugh McDermot, that wicked old Turk, 
Who had a crim. con. with the wife of O’Rourke. 


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McGra, McGrath, McGill, McKeon, 
McCadden, McFadden, McCarron, McGlone, 
McGarren, McFarren, McClarey, McCoy, 
McHaley, McClinch, McElrath, McElroy ; 
MeMillan, McClellan, McGillan, McFinn, 
McCullagh, McCunn, McManus, MeGyn; 
McGinley, McKinley, McCaffray, McKay, 
McCarral, McFarrell, McCurchy, MeRay. 


O'Dillon, O’Dolan, O’Devlin, O’Doyle, 
O’Mullen, O'Nolan, O’Bolan, O’Bovle; 
O’Murray, O’Rooney, O’Corney, O'Kane, 
O’Cary, O'Leary, O’Shea and O’Shane, 
O'Brien, O’Rourke, O’Reilley, ONeill, 
O'Hagan, O’Reagan, O’Fagan, O’Sheil ; 
O’Dennis, O'Dwyer, O’Blaney, O’F lynn, 
O’Grady, O’Shaughnessey, Brian O’Lynn. 


The danghters of Erin are. Kileen O’Roone, 

And Norah McCushla and Shela McClone, 

With Kathleen Mavourreen and Molley Asthore, 
The beautiful charmers we love and adore. 

There is Dora MeCushla and Widow McChree; 
There is Molly McGuire and Biddy McGee ; 
There is dear Norah Creina and Shelish McGrath, 
And the mother of all is—sweet Erin-go-Bragh ! 





THE RISING OF THE MOON. 


[This song, which is the production of John B. Casey, “the 
Galtee Boy,” who was an inmate of an English dungeon, is im- 
mensely popular here, especially in the West, where it is often 
made the marching tune of bodies of men eager to emulate the 
patriot example of the men 98, It is sung to the air of “ Wearing 
ef the Green.” ] 


“Ou! then, tell me, Shane O’Farrel, tell me where you 
hurry so?” 

“Hush, ma bouchal! hush and listen” and his cheeks were 
all aglow, 


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“1 bear orders from the Captain: get you ready quick and 
svon 
For the pikes must be together by the rising of the moon.” 


CHORUS. 
By the rising of the moon, by the rising of the moon : 
For the pikes must be together by the rising of the moon, 
I bear orders from the Captain: get you ready quick and 
soon, 
For the pikes must be together by the rising of the moon, 


‘Qh ! then, tell me, Shane O’Farrell, where the gatherin’ is 


to be?” 

In the ould spot, by the river, right well-known to you 
and me. 

One word more : for signal-token, whistle up the marchin’ 
tune, 

Wi. your pike upon your shoulder, by the rising of the 
moun. By the rising of the moon, &e 


Out from many a mud-wall cabin, eyes were watching 
thro’ the night, 

Many a manly heart was throbbing for that blessed warn- 
ing light ; 

Murmurs passed along the valley, like the banshee’s lonely 
croon, 

And a thousand pikes were flashing by the rising of the 
moon. By the rising of the moon, &c. 


Jown along yon singing river, that dark mass of men was 

seen, 

High above their shining weapons floats their own beloved 
green, 

Death to every foe and traitor! forward! strike the 
marchin’ tune ! | 

And hurrah, my boys, for Freedom ! ’tis the rising of the 

moon. Tis the rising of the muon, &¢, 


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Weil they fought for poor Ould Ireland, and full bitter 
was their fate ; 

Oh! what glorious pride and sorrow fill the name of 
miaety-eight ! 

But yet, thank God, there’s beating hearts in manhood’s 
buramg-noon, 

Wh» will toliow m their footsteps by the rising of the 
moon. By the rising of the moon, &e. 





THE TW1G OF THE SHANNON. 


On the beautiful banks of the Shannon, 
There grows such an illagané tree, 
And the first that it bears is shillalah, 
T’ve a sprig of it here you may see. 
"lis the remnant of all my large fortune, 
It’s the friend that ne’er played me a trick, 
And I’d rather lose half my supportin’ 
Than part with this illagant stick. : 


CHORUS. 


*J'was a delicate sprig in the summer, 
When I first cut it from the tree, 

And I’ve kept it through all the cold weather, 
Faix, the sprig of shillalah for me. , 


It’s the porter that carried my luggage, 
For I’ve shouldered for many a mile, 
And from thieves it will safely protect me, 
In a beautiful delicate style. 
It is useful for rows in the summer, 
And when winter comes on with a storm, 
If you’re short of a fire in the cabin, 
You can burn it to keep yourself warm. : 
"T'was a delicate sprig, &e. 


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[t’s a friend both so true and so constant, 
1t’s constancy pen cannot paint, 
For it always is there when it’s wanted, 
And sometimes it’s there when it aint. 
It beats all your guns and your rifles, 
For it goes off when’er you desire, 
And it’s shure to hit what’er it’s aimed at, 
For shillalahs they never miss fire. 
T'was a delicate sprig, Se 


It’s a talisman so upright and honest, 
Twenty shillings it pays to the pound; 
So if ever it gets you in debt, sir. 
You are sure to be paid, I’ll be bound. 
It never runs up a long scure, sir, 
Tn trade it’s not given to fail, 
There’s no danger of it’s being insolvent, 
For it always pays down on the nail. 
"I'was a delicate spriy é&e. 


And faith, at an Irish election, > 
An argument striking it’s there ; 
For with brickbats and sprigs of the Shann 
We see things go all right and square, 
It’s then there’s no bribery at all, sir, 
They vote as they like, every soul, 
But it’s no use opposing the shillalah. 
Or it’s sure to come down on the poll. 
"T'was a delicate st .g, &a 





THE DYING SOLDIER; 
OR, ONE OF THE RANK AND FiLF. 


"Twas a glorious day, worth a warrior’s telling : 
Two kings had fought, and the fight was done, 
When, amidst the shouts of victory swelling, 
A soldier fell on the field he’d won 


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THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 


He thought of kings and royal quarrels, 
And thought of glory without a smile— 
For what had he to do with laurels, 
He was only one of the rank and file. 
But drawing his little cruiskeen, 
He drank to his pretty colleen, 
“Qh! darling,” said he, “ if I die, 
You won't be a widow, for why ? 
Sure you would never have me, vourneen.” 


Then a raven tress from his bosom taking, 
That now was stained with his life stream shed, 
A fervent prayer on that ringlet making, 
He blessings sought on the loved one’s head. 
And visions fair of his native mountains 
Arose, enchanting his fading sight ; 
Her emerald valleys and crystal fountains 
Were never shining more clear and bright. 
But grasping his little cruiskeen, 
He pledged that dear island so green: 
“Though far from thy valleys I die, 
Dearest isle of my heart, thou art nigh, 
As though absent I never had been.” 


A tear now fell, for as life was sinking, 
The pride that guarded his manly eye 
Had weaker grown, and such tender thinking 
Brought heaven and home, his true love, nigh ; 
But, with the fire of his gallant nation, 
He scorned surrender without a blow; 
He met death with capitulation, 
And with warlike honors he would go. 
But drawing his little cruiskeen 
He drank to his cruel colleen, 
To the emerald land of his birth, 
Then lifeless he sunk to the earth, 
Brave a soldier as ever was seen 


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THE IRISH RECRUIT. 
A1rn—Paddy O’Rourke. 


-Trppy O’Ran had a valiant heart, and to fight was mighty 
willing ; ; 
To the sergeant Paddy marched, and took the ‘listing shil 
ling. 
“ Faith. [ll be promoted goon,” says he to Corporal Cazy, 
“or I’ve shouldered the hod for many long years, it will 
tache me to shoot aisy.” 
Wid a row dow dow, &c. 


Spoken —“ Hould up your head,” says the sergeant. 
“'That’s what I’m always after doing—excepting whin I’ve 
got a whiskey faver, and thin it isa bit lobsided.” “'Turn 
out your toes,” says he. “Faith, and sure don’t you see 
my toes are out already ;” and faith, that was true for me, 
for both shoes were out at elbows, and the only stockings I 
had were bare feet. ‘Stand at ease,” cried he. “ How 
will I be after doing that same? Sure and faith,” said I, 
“T never stand at ease but when I set down.” “ Shoulder 
arms,” cried he. ‘ Wouli you have me shoulder legs?” 
saysI. “Right about face,” says he. “ Oh, I’m all right 
about the face,” says I. “To the right wheel,” savy he. 
“Tf it’s the same thing to you I would sooner have a taste of 
mutton.” “Order arms,” says he. ‘ Where will I order 
thim,” says I. “ Loag,” says he. “The cart or the barrow,” 
says I. “Fire,” says he. “Where,” says I. “ Charge,” - 
says he. “Three and a kick,” says I. “Take that,” 
sayshe. And by powers of Poll Kelly le was after hittin 
me such a crack that made me sing 





Row de 2cw, &e. 


At last they drill’d and brac’d me up, and fitted me for battle, 

And off we marched to the field of fight, where the cannons 
loud did rattle. 

There the blood did run a\vout just like pools of water, 

“ Paddy,” says they, “now which is the best, the gu» or the 
hod wid de mortar.” 


62 THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 


Spoken.—-Phat was the use of disliking that same! ‘They 
told me I cud but die once; faith, but I saw many a poor 
Tellow killed two or three times. At last it came to my 
turn—for a ball come and knocked me down as dead as a 
herren. “Get up out of that,” says the sargent. ‘ How 
can I,” says I, “sure and don’t you see I am kilt.” “The 
gorra bit,” says he. “Sure then, I’m helpless,” says I 
‘and that’s just as bad.” While he was going on so, bad luck 
to me but a ball comes along and takes off his leg. ‘My 
leg’s gone,” sayshe. “ Which leg?” saysI. “My left,” 
says he. ‘Och, then,” says I, “your right is left.” 
‘“‘ How’s that?” says he. “ Because it’s the only one that’s 
left.” So at last we beat the foe, and the drummers bate, 
and I was taking off the field wid the killed and wounde], 
got my discharge wid a thumping penchan, which thry 

never pay, causing me to sing. 
Row, de dow, &c. 


WATERFORD BOYS. 
A1R—The Flaming O’F lannigans. 


WELL, boys, for divarsion, we all met together ; 

V’ll tell you how from Waterford hither I came, 
I left that dear city in dark, gloomy weather, 

My heart it was light and my pockets the same 
I lilted a song as I tripped it along ; 

By the road-side a tavern I happened to spy, 
And, as I was meltin’, my pockets I felt in 

For the price of a drink; I was mortally dry. 


CHORUS. 


But we are the boys for fun, wit, and elemep*, 
Drinking, and dancing, and all other joys, 

Ructions, destruction, divarsion, and enjoyment— 
Who can compare te the Waterford 


THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK 163 


In tue tavern I strolled, out the landlord he rolled ; 
‘(zoo mornin’,” says he. Says I, “If you please, 

Conla you shake me a bed, but first bring some bread, 
With a bottle of porter and a small lump of cheese ?” 

For, times they are queer, and provisions are dear ; 
If you cannot get meat, with cheese be content. 

Says the landlord: “You're right” as he brought me the bite, 
So, I rolled up my sleeves and at it I went. 

| We are the boys &o. 


My bread and cheese ended, I then condescended 
To seek my repose: so I bade ’em good night. 
Soon under the clothes I was trying to doze, 
But first popped in my toes, and then popped out the light. 
Not long was I sleeping, I heard something creeping, 
And meandering, and scratching, about the bed-post 
My breath I suspended, but the noise never ended: 
Thinks I: Ye have mighty long claws for a ghost ! 
We are the boys, &o. 


The row it commences: near out of my senses, 
I ventured to peep from beneath the bed-clothes. 
Miila murther! what’s that? ”I'was a big black jack-ran, 
With a leap from the floor, came a top of my nose. 
“Confound ye!” says I, “for a scheming ould vagabone 
Take that, and that.” I jumped on the floor ; 
“ Oh! Moses, blue fire, Biddy ! Sophia ! 
The rats they are eating me up by the score !” 
We are the boys, &e. 


The landlord affrightened, he then brought a light in 
Says I: “ I’m near dead, its time I’m away.” 

Says he: “ Before going, ’'d have ye be knowing, 
For supper and bed you've five shillings to pay.” 

“Five shillings! for what? Now don’t be disgracing 
Yourself as a rogue,” says I, “if you please: 

When I can’t sleep for rats, you’ve the brassiest face on Jy 
To charge me five shillings for plain bread and cheese | 

; We are the bovs, &c. 


164 THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 


Says he: “Och, those rats, I wish they would leave me, 
They ruin my trade. I’m not worth a rap.” 
Says I: “The five shillings now would you forgive me, 
If I tell you the way to keep out every rat?” 
“T will.” Says I: “Then to supper invite them, 
And plain bread and cheese set before tem, be sure, 
Don’t mind if they’re willing, but charge them five shillings, 
Bad luck to the rat that ye’ll ever see more !” 
We are the boys, &e. 


nl 


WHERE THE GRASS GROWS GREEN. 
Vm Denny Blake from County Clare, 


* And here, at your command, 

To sing a song in praise of home, 
And my own native land! 

I’ve sailed to foreign counteries, 
And in many climes I’ve been, 

But my heart is still with Erin, 
Where the grass grows green. 


CHORUS. 


I love my native country, 
And tho’ richer land’s I’ve seen 
Yet I can’t forget Ould Ireland, 
Where the grass grows green. 


Poor Pat. is often painted 
With a ragged coat and hat; 
His heart and hospitality, 
Have much to do with that. 
Let slanderers say what they will, 
They cannot call him mean; 
Sure, a stranger’s always welcome 
Where the grass grows green. 
] love my, &e 


THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK 63 


He’s foolish, but not vicious, 
His faults I won’t defend ; 
His purse to help the orphan, 
His life to serve a friend, 
He'll give, without a murmur— 
So, his follies try and screen ; 
For, there’s noble hearts in Erin, 
Where the grass grows green. 
I love my, &e. 


’ Tis true he has a weakness 
For a drop of something pure, 
But that’s a slight debility 
That many more endure. 
He’s fond of fun, he’s witty, 
Though his wit ’tis not too keen; 
For there’s feeling hearts in Erin,’ 
Where the grass grows green. 


I love my, &e. 


There’s not a true-born Irishman, 
Wherever he may be, 

But loves the little Emerald 
That sparkles in the sea. 

May the sun of bright prosperity 
Shine peaceful and serene, 

And bring better days to Erin, 
Where the grass grows green ! 

For I love my, &e. 





WHAT IRISH BOYS CAN DO. 


fury insult an Irishman, and think naught of what they 
Bay 
They'll ‘call him green, an Irish bull—it Lappens every 


day. 


166 THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 


Now to these folks I’ll say a word; to sing asong I'll try; 

And answer to those dirty words: “ No Irish need apply !” 

So, if you'll give attention, I’ll sing my song to you, 

And the subject of this song shall be: What Irish boys 
can do. 


If you’d come to Ireland, they’d treat you well, I’m sure = 

Pat would share his last potato with the destitute ad 
poor ; 

If you were sick and weary, and had no place to rest, 

The bed you’d get, though poor, perhaps, would be Pat's 
very best ; 

He’d nurse you, too; he would that, and give you plenty, 
too ; 

And you cannot find a nobler act than Irishmen can do. 


Did you ever know an Irishman from any danger flinch f 

In fighting, too, he’d rather die than give his foe an inch, 

Among the bravest in the world are the sons of Erin’s 
green Isle— 

Sure, the Iron Duke of Wellington was a native of the 
soil— 

And didn’t he badly whip the French on the plains ot 
Waterloo? 

Which plainly showed to the whole world what Irishmen 
can do. 


Did you ne’er hear tell of Sheridan, or lamented Catharine 
Hayes? 

D.d you ne’er see fun in Irish songs, or laugh at Irish 

lays? 

Old Ireland had her statesmen ; their fame the wide world 
rings 

She’s likewise had musicians to tune her old harp strings! 

Not all Irish girls are beautiful, but then they’re always 
true 


And for faith and generosity the Irish girls will do. 


THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 167 


Then, why slur upon the Irish? Why are they treated so? 

What is it you have against them? is what I want to 
know. | 

Sure, they work for all they get, and that you can’t deny! 

Then, why insult them with the words: No Irish need 
apply? 

If you want to find their principles, go search the wide 
world through | 

And you'll find all things that’s noble the Trish folks can 
do. ; 





WHY JANT PADDY BE A GENTLEMAN { 


WORDS BY GEORGE COOPER. 


[ was told that Pat couldn’t be a gentleman; so I’ve ses 
myself the task, 

That I to-night the reason why—of you, my friends, woulé 
ask ; 

Hasn’t Ireland her colleges that have for centuries stood 

To teach the people? and you know, the teaching might 

good 

Haven't Irishmen got heads and hearts? Bedad I know 
that’s so. 

Then why can’t Paddy be a gentleman? That’s what ) 
want to know. 


Spoken.—1 should like to see it denied. Look at tha 
record and you'll never ask 





CHORUS. 
Why can’t Paddy be a gentleman ? 
A gentleman, a gentleman ! 
Why can’t Paddy be a gentleman? 
That’s what I want to know. 


If Paddy’s not a gentleman, I’d like to know who is. 
Yon oannot give a reaacn why—ench manly trait is his 5 


,68 THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOL 


{le’s always first to help a friend, although his means are 
scant 

And tho’ he’s fond of blarney, he hates deceit and cant. 

His coat may be of common frieze, his heart won’t freeze, 
oh, no! 

Then why can’t Paddy be a gentleman? That’s what I 


want to know. 


Spoken.—If you know, tell me— 
Why can’t Paddy, &c. 


Just read the Irish history, and in that same you'll find 

Great deeds of Irish gentlemen; St. Patrick’s one, d’ye mind? 

If great deeds then, ennoble men, al, worrah, sure it’s true, 

Pat shows as long a list, my boys, as any one can du. 

‘And don’t forget this, ye who sneer at honest Paddy’s 
worth, 

That actions make the gentleman, no matter what the birth, 


Spoken.—Sure, none of you can tell me— 


Why can’t Paddy be a gentleman? 
A gentleman, a gentleman | 

Why can’t Paddy be a gentlemuf 
Vhat’s what I want to know? 





WIDOW MALONE. 


WRITTEN BY CHARLES LEVER. 


Dip you hear of the Widow Malone 
Ohone 

“Yho lived in the town of Athlone ? 
Ohone ! 

h, she melted the hearts 
Of the swains in them parts, 
So lovely the Widow Malone, 
Ohone! 
So lovely the Widow Malene. 


THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 169 


Of lovers she had a full score, 
Or more, 
And fortunes they all had galore, 
In store; 
From the minister down 
To the clerk of the crown, 
All were courting the Widow Malone, 
Ohone ! 
All were courting the Widow Malone. 


But so modest was Mistress Malone, 
"T'was known, 
No one could see her alone, 
. Ohone! 
Let them ogle and sigh, 

They could ne’er catch her eye, 

So bashful the Widow Malone, 
Ohone! 

So bashful the Widow Malone. 


Till one Mister O’ Brien, from Clare— 
How queer !— 
It’s little for blushing they care 
Down there, 
Put his arm round her waist— 
Gave ten kisses at least— 
“ Oh,” says he, “ you’re my Molly Malone; 
My own. 
Ok,” says he, “ you’re my Molly Malone.” 


And the widow they all thought so shy, 
My eye! 
Ne’er thought of a simper or sigh, 
For why? 


170 THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 


“ But Lucius,” says she, 
‘Since you’ve now made so free, 
You may marry your Mary Malone, 
Ohone! 
You may marry your Mary Malone.” 


There’s a moral contained in my song, 
Not wrong, 
And one comfort, it’s not very lerg, 
But strong— 
If for widows you die, 
Learn to kiss, not to sigh, 
For they’re all like sweet Mistress Malone, 
Ohone! 
For they’re all like sweet Mistress Malone. 





WIDOW MACHREE. 


Widow Machree, ’tis no wonder you frown, i 
Och hone! Widow Machree, 
Faith, it ruins your looks, that same dirty black gowns, 
Och hone! Widow Machree. 
How altered your air, 
With that close cap you wear, 
"Tis destroying your hair 
That should be flowing free; 
Be no longer a churl 
Of its black silken curl, | 
Och hone! Widow Machree. 


Widow Machree! now the summer is come, 
Och hone! Widow Machree. 

When everything smiles, should a beauty look glam, 
Och hone! Widow Machree 


{HE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 174 


See the birds go in pairs, 

And the rabbits and hares, 

Why even the bears 
In couples agree, 

And the mute little fish, 

Though they can’t spake, they wish, 
Och hone! Widow Machree. 


Widow Machree, and when winter comes in, 
Och hone! Widow Machree, 
To be poking the fire all alone is a sin, 
Och hone! Widow Machree, 
Why, the shovel and tongs 
To each other belongs, 
And the kettle sings songs 
Full of family glee; 
While alone with your cup, 
Like a hermit you sup, 
Och hone! Widow Machree. © 


And how do you know, with the comforts I’ve towld, 
Och hone! Widow Machree. 
But you're keeping some poor fellow out in the cowld, 
Och hone! Widow Machree. 
With such sins on your head, 
Sure your peace would be tled— 
Could you sleep on your bed, 
Without thinking to see 
Some ghost or some sprite, 
That would wake you each night, 
Crying, och hone! Widow Machree. 


Then take my advice, darling Widow Machree, 
Och hone, Widow Machree, 

And with my advice, faith, I wish you'd take me, 
Och houe! Widow Machree. 


- 


172 THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 


You'd have me to desire, 
And to stir up the fire, 
And, sure, hope is no liar, 
In whispering to me, 
That the ghosts would depart 
When you'd be near my heart, 
Och hone! Widow Machree. 


_ OLD IRELAND’S LIBERTY. 


Rersoice ! rejoice | Hibernia’s sons rejoice ! 
For the day is near at hand when the French are go- 
ing to land | 
Then rejoice ! rejoice | Hibernia’s sons rejoice | 
For soon we shall see the day of liberty. 
Old Ireland shall be free, and to that weall agree, 
For the foeeman may meet us, and in battle not defeat us 5 
But still ! still ! we look for liberty ! 
For we are as brave a race as e’er could be. 


Then prepare? prepare | Hibernia’s sons prepare |! 
For the time it soon will come, get ready your pike 
and gun, 
And prepare | prepare | Hibernia’s sons prepare ! 
To strike a gallant blow for liberty. 
Let the dastard that is willing to take the Saxon 
shilling, 
Return from whence he came, with a blot upon his name, 
And repent ! repent! for all his former crimes, 
Until the sun no longer on him shines. 


\Now forward | forward! on to the fight we go! 
Mind each your pike or gun, and we'll show tha 
Saxon fun ; 
Then steady! steady | let each one mark his man ! 
And soon our ery will be, “Old Irelana’s free !” 
- For God is on our side, and in that alone we pride ; 
For we have a righteous canse, “free Ireland ana Free 
Laws !” | 
Then huzza! huzza! huzza! huzza! huzza | 
We will thrash the enemies of Liberty ! 


THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 178 


KATE KEARNEY. 


Ox! did you ne’er hear of Kate Kearney ! 
She lives on the banks of Killarney ; 

From the glance of her eye, shun danger and fly, 
For fatal’s the glance of Kate Kearney. 


For that eye is so modestly beaming, 

You'd ne’er think of mischief she’s dreaming ; 
Yet, oh] I can tell, how fatal’s the spell 

That lurks in the eye of Kate Kearney. 


O, should you e’er meet this Kate Kearney, 

Who lives on the banks of Killarney, 
Beware of her smile, for many a wile 

Lies hid in the smile of Kate Kearmmey. 


Though she looks so bewitchingly simple, 
Yet there’s mischief in every dimple, 

And who dares inhale her sigh’s spicy gale, 
Must die by the breath of Kate Kearney. 





PAT ROACH AT THE PLAY. 


As Pat Roach and the Missus, from Galway, 
In Dublin once happened to be, 
To the playhouse they went one fine evening, 
Determined diversion to see. 
But, says Pat as he entered, “ There’s no one.” 
To pay money to, here, at all ;” 
“Pay here!” cried a voice. ‘‘ Holy murther!* 
Says Pat, “there’s a man in the wall.” 
“Pay here!” cries a voice. ‘ Holy murther!” 
Says Pat, “there’s a man in the wall.” 


‘The missus she looks all around her, 
In wonder her eyes they did roll, 
But says she, “‘ Paddy darling, alanna, 

He is here like a rat in a hole :” 


74 THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 


“Pay here.” “How much is it?” “ A sailling, 
“A shilling apiece, that won’t do; 5 

*Tis too much, Mr. Pay here, avourneen, 
Eighteen pince I will give you for two: 

*Tis too much, Mister Pay here, avourneer, 
Eighteen pince I will give you for two” 


Pat grumbled, but paid and got seated, 
The band was beginning to play, 

He jigged on his seat quite elated, 
And to the musicians did say : 

“Tis yerselves that can do it, me boucheds, 
And I wish to yes wid all me mind. 

To the fiddlers, ‘More power to your elbows, 
Mister Bugler, Heav’n spare ye yer wind.” 
To the fiddlers, ‘“‘ More power to your elbows, 
Mister Bugler, Heav’n spare ye yer wind.” 


The play then went on and Pat wondered, 
And sat with his mouth open wide, 

As the proud haughty Lord of the Manor, 
Sought to make the fair maiden his bride. 

“To the mountains,” says he, “I will bear thee.” 
She shrieked as she saw him approach: 

Ig there no one at hand now to save me?” 
Shouts a voice: “ Yis, me darlin’, Pat Roach.” 


Then up or the seat jumped brave Paddy, 
Says he: “ Now you blackguard, be gone, 
Or a lord though you be tin times over, 
V’ll knock your two eyes into one.” — 
‘Sit down there in front!” “What, you spalpesn, 
Is it me you thus dare to addriss? 
Do you think that Pat Roach would sit aisy, 
And see that poor girl in distriss ?” 


THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 173 


A scuffle ensued in a minute, 

- But soon sure the row did subside, 

And as Pat gasped for breath he discovered, 
Of the door he was on the wrong side; 

He soon found the missus, next morning 
They started for home, and Pat swore 

(f he once safely landed in Galway, 
He’d come up to Dublin no more. 





THE ROSE OF ERIN. 


I saw her first in golden hours, 
With primrose stars appearin’, 
O green was she of all the flow’rs, 
“he lovely Rose of Erin! 
Beneath the shade of Irish hills, 
Their Isle’s own colors wearin’, 
Ah, where smiled the shamrock all the dag, 
There dwelt the Rose of Erin, 
Dwelt the Rose of Erin. 


I saw her next in summer time, 
With evry charm endearin’, 

For she was in her girlhood’s fame, 
The lovely Rose of Erin; 

We met beside the banks of Erin. 
No thought of sorrow fearin’, 
Ah, yet oft I thought her lily-pale, 
My darlin’ Rose of Erin, 
Darlin’ Rose of Erin. 


Alas! alas! on autumn’s wave, 
T heav’n her bark was steerin’, 
And I, no pray’r of mine might save 
My lovely Rose of Krin. 


1¥6 


THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-bBOOK. 


Ah! well-a-day, the angels came, 
My heart’s own garden nearin’, 
Ab! and took from earth, to bloom in heav’s, 
My lovely Rose of Erin, 
Lovely Rose of Erin. 





THERE'S BOUND TO BE A ROW. 


I’m a poor unlucky married man, 
I’ve got an awful wife: 
To please her I do all I can, 
But still she plagues my life. 
If I do everything that’s right, 
She’ll find a fault somehow, 
And if not in at eight, each night, 
There’s bound to be a row. 


CHORDS. 


There’s bound to be a row, 
Bound to be a row: 

Do all in life to please my wife. 
Yet there’s bound to be a row. 


She makes me do the household work 
When I come home at night: 
If I cough or sneeze when going to bed, 
Of course that is not right. 
If she should wake the young ones up, 
With rage she’ll storm, I vow, 
And if I snore too hard for her, 
Why, there’s bound to be a row. 
There’s bound, &e 


She wakes me early, every morn, 
In an awful cruel way: 

She kicks me round about the room, 
Yet not a sentence dare I say. 


_ THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK- 137 


I have io wash my stockings, 
My pants and shirts, I vow, 
And if I don’t wash for her as well, 
There’s bound to be a row. 
There’s bound, &e» 


And when I’m paid my wages, ‘ 


After working hard all week, 
I give her every farthing up, 
And then she’s got the cheek 
To give me two pence for myself, 
And for that I have to bow: 
But if I spend it all at once, 
There’s bound to be a row. 
There’s bound, &e, 





SILVER THREADS AMONG THE GOLD. 


Darling, I am growing old, 

Silver threads amony the gold 

Stiine upon my brow to day : 

Life is fading fast away, 

But, my darling, you will be, will be— 
Always young and fair to me—. 

Yes, my darl ng, you will be 

Always young and fair to me. 


CHORUS. 
Darling, I am growing, growing old, 
Silver th eads among the gold 
Shine upon my brow to-day : 
Life is fading fast away— 


When your hair is silver white, 
And your cheeks no longer bright 
With the roses of the May, 

I will kiss your lips and say : 


118 





THE FAUGH-A-BALLAGH SONG-BOOK. 


“Oh! my darling, mine alone, alone 

You have never older grown— 

Yes, my darling, mine alone— 

You have never older grown !” Chorus. 


Love can never more grow old, 


Locks may lose their brown and gold; 
Cheeks may fade and hollow grow, 

But the hearts that love will know 

Never, never winter's frost and chill: 

Summer warmth is in them still— 

Never winter’s frost and chill, 

Summer warmth is in them still. Chorus. 


Love is always young and fair— 
What to us is silver hair, 

Faded cheeks, or steps grown slow, 
To the heart that beats below ? 
Since I kissedvyou mine alone, alone, 
You have never older grown—= 
Since I kissed you mine alone, 

You have never older grown. Chorus, 


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